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CONCERNING  BOOK-PLATES 

A  HANDBOOK  FOR  COLLECTORS 

BY 

ZELLA  ALLEN  DIXSON,  A.M. 

Member  of  Ex   Libris   Society, 

London ;    Exlibris-Verein,   Berlin  ;   Oester- 

reichische  Ex-Libris-Gesellschaft,   Vienna ;  Soci6t6  Fran- 

(jaise  des  Collectionneurs  d'Ex -Libris,  Paris  ; 

Ex  Libris-Club  "  Basilea,"  Basle. 

FIBST   EDITION 
WITH    ILIiUSTBATIONS    AND   PliATBS 


^clIaAneh-Eix.sor. 
130J. 


Chicago 
Published  by  the  WISTERIA  COTTAGE  PRESS 

1903 


SCHOOL 


GENERAL 


Copyright,  1903, 

By  ZELLA  ALLEN  DIXSON. 

All  rights  reserved. 


V,. -* 


TO 

J.  WINFRED  SPENCELEY 

THROUGH  WHOSE  PATIENT  LABOR  AND 

ARTISTIC   SKILL,  SO  MANY  BEAUTIFUL 

BOOK-PLATES  HAVE   BEEN  BORN  INTO  THE 

KINGDOM,    THIS  BOOK  IS  DEDICATED, 

WITH    SINCERE  APPRECIATION. 


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PREFACE 


Part  of  the  material  used  in  this  little  book 
was  originally  prepared  by  the  author  for  the 
Annual  Book  Number  of  The  Outlook,  1902. 
It  is  now  reprinted  by  permission. 

The  general  interest  in  the  subject  of  book- 
plates has  so  greatly  increased  during  the  past 
few  years,  that  it  is  hoped  that  this  little  book, 
as  a  contribution  towards  a  handbook  for  collect- 
ors, may  not  be  entirely  unnecessary.  It  aims 
to  give  the  many  small  items,  hard  to  find,  yet 
BO  much  needed  in  order  to  know  how  to  collect, 
preserve,  arrange,  and  identify  the  specimens 
of  such  a  collection,  with  the  least  personal  in- 
convenience. It  endeavors  to  bring  each  per- 
son who  desires  to  study  book-plates  directly 
in  contact  with  the  experience  of  others  of  sim- 
ilar pursuit.  Only  a  few  decades  ago,  the  fad 
of  collecting  ex-libris  was  largely  confined  to  a 
few  book- worms  and  antiquarians  ;  to-day  many 
vii 


PBEFACE 

individuals,  scattered  all  over  the  world,  are 
filling  their  leisure  time  with  pleasure,  and  their 
minds  with  valuable  information  concerning  art, 
history,  literature,  geography,  heraldry,  geneal- 
ogy, and  biography,  through  the  study  of  this 
most  interesting  subject.  Libraries,  museums, 
and  learned  societies  vie  with  each  other  in  the 
size  and  rarity  of  the  collections  they  offer  as  a 
field  of  research. 

As  Fra  Elbertus  has  told  us,  "Life  in  this 
world  is  all  a  collecting,  and  all  the  men  and 
women  in  it  are  collectors.  The  only  question 
is,  what  will  you  collect  ?  "  In  early  childhood 
we  collect  bits  of  glass,  buttons,  and  jack-knives. 
Farther  along  on  the  road  of  life,  it  is  stamps, 
coins,  and  autographs.  In  middle  life,  we  seek 
old  china,  hand-made  furniture,  engravings,  and 
first  editions.  In  slow  old  age  we  gather  anec- 
dotes, fascinating  tales  of  our  own  early  prow- 
ess or  the  smart  sayings  of  our  grandchildren. 
Some  spend  the  energies  of  mind  and  body*  to 
collect  dollars  and  cents  ;  others  select  costly 
trappings  and  fashionable  friends  ;  some  make 
a  specialty  of  sensations  and  strive  for  ever-new 
viii 


PREFACE 


experiences.  Incidentally,  while  we  are  busy 
collecting  one  thing,  there  is  an  accumulation  of 
quite  another  sort.  The  miser  counts  his  hoard- 
ed gold,  but  the  enemies  that  envy  and  jealousy 
have  made  are  countless.  The  good  fellow  has 
"seen  the  sights"  and  "lived  the  life"  but  he  has 
also  laid  up  for  himself  a  fine  assortment  of 
headaches,  heartaches,  and  vain  regrets. 

This  little  book  recommends  the  collecting 
of  book-plates.  To  make  such  a  collection  brings 
a  good  time,  without  a  headache  next  morning, 
It  places  you  in  personal  contact  with  the  good 
and  the  great,  in  all  lands  and  in  all  ages,  so  that 
their  lives  will  overshadow  your  own,  and  help 
to  give  it  purpose  and  tone.  Such  a  hobby  will 
make  friends  for  you  of  persons  you  may  never 
see  nor  meet  ;  it  will  make  strange  lands  real  to 
you  and  help  you  to  realize  the  great  brotherhood 
of  man,  as  few  other  studies  can. 

Zella  Allen  Dixson 


The  University  of  Chicago 
Chicago,  Illinois. 
June,    1903. 


IX 


ILLUSTRATIONS 

CHARLES  WILLIAM  SHERBORN  Frontispiece 

WISTERIA  COTTAGE  PRESS  Title-page 

BOOK-PLATE  OP  ZELLA  ALLEN  DIXSON  v 


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CONTENTS 

CHAP.  PAGE 

I.    THE  SUBJECT  IN  GENERAL.  1 

II.    SPECIAL    BOOK-PLATES    AND    THEIR 

VALUES.  14 

III.    SOME  FAMOUS  BOOK-PLATE  ARTISTS 

OF  THE  PAST.  58 

IV.    SOME  MODERN  ARTISTS   WHO    MAKE 

BOOK-PLATES.  86 

V.    CLASSIFICATION  AND   ARRANGEMENT.        141 

VI.    BOOK-PLATE    ASSOCIATIONS,    CLUBS, 

AND  SOCIETIES.  167 

VII.  SOME  INSTITUTIONS  AND  INDIVID- 
UALS MAKING  COLLECTIONS  OF 
BOOK-PLATES.  176 


THE   ART   OF    BOOK-KEEPING 


I,  of  my  Spenser  quite  bereft, 

Last  winter  sore  was  shaken ; 
Of  Lamb  I've  but  a  quarter  left, 

Nor  could  I  save  my  Bacon. 
They've  picked  my  Locke,  to  me  far  more 

Than  Bramah's  patent  worth; 
And  now  my  losses  I  deplore, 

Without  a  Home  on  earth. 


Yet  they  have  made  me  slight  returns, 

To  thus  my  grief  divide  , 
For, oh! they  cured  me  of  my  Burns, 

And  eased  my  Akenside. 
But  all  I  think,  I  shall  not  say, 

Nor  let  my  anger  burn. 
For  as  they  have  not  found  me  Gay, 

They  have  not  left  me  Sterne. 


XV 


UNIVERSITY 


CHAPTER    I 

THE    SUBJECT    IN    GENERAL 

"  The  outward  and  visible  mark  of  the  citizenship  of  a 
book-lover  is  his  book-plate.  .  .  .  To  have  a  book-plate 
gives  a  collector  great  serenity  and  self-confidence.  We 
have  labored  in  a  far  more  conscientious  spirit  since  we 
had  ours  than  we  did  before. " 

Edmund  William  Gosse.  "  Gossip  in  a  Library. " 

In  its  simplest  definition  a  book-plate  is  the 
name-label  that  is  pasted  on  the  inside  of  the 
front  cover  of  a  book  to  denote  its  ownership. 
From  the  last  half  of  the  fifteenth  century  an 
increasing  number  of  individuals  have  used 
these  plates.  In  Great  Britain,  Belgium, 
France,  Italy,  Austria,  Germany,  Russia,  South 
America,  South  Australia,  Sweden,  Switzerland, 
and  the  Netherlands,  as  well  as  in  America, 
libraries  and  museums  have  great  collections  of 
book-plates  arranged  for  the  special  study  of 
the  individuals  who  originally  owned  them.  A 
list  of  the  plates  of  such  exhibition  collections 
1 


CONCERNING   BOOK-PLATES 

includes,  more  perfectly  than  the  best  biograph- 
ical dictionaries,  the  names  of  the  great  in  all 
departments  during  those  years. 

To  have  a  book-plate  is  to  be  personally 
interested  in  every  other  plate  and  to  seek 
information  in  regard  to  all  that  is  connected 
with  it.  To  know  even  a  few  plates  well,  is  to 
have  learned  indirectly  many  things  not  gen- 
erally known  in  history,  literature,  art,  travel, 
biography,  and  heraldry. 

In  discussing  any  phase  of  this  subject,  one 
should  remember  that  a  book-plate  is  only  one 
of  several  time-honored  methods  of  checking 
the  inherent  tendency  in  books  to  stray  from 
the  library  to  which  they  belong  and  never 
again  take  their  places  beside  their  companions 
upon  the  shelves.  The  most  ancient  libraries 
were  housed  in  temples,  with  priests  charged 
with  their  care.  The  check  in  these  collections 
was  the  ever-vigilant  jailer-librarian,  terribly 
in  earnest  to  see  that  none  of  the  unfortunates 
under  his  care  made  their  escape. 

During  the  monastic  period,  when  the 
energy  and  devotion  of  the  Benedictines  had 

2 


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UNIVERSITY 


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THE   SUBJECT    IN   GENERAL 

given  a  second  birth  to  literature  and  learning, 
and  added  to  the  book-world  the  beautiful  illu- 
minated books  of  the  Dark  Ages,  a  second 
check  came  into  existence.  Having  now  the 
care  of  books  upon  each  of  which  a  lifetime  of 
patient  skill  had  been  expended,  books  that 
were  worth  a  king's  ransom,  the  wise  old  monks 
decided  that  treasures  so  scarce  and  valuable 
must  not  be  left  to  readers  with  slippery  fingers 
and  defective  memories.  So  each  book  was 
securely  chained  with  a  strong  chain  to  the  desk 
or  shelf  on  which  it  was  to  be  used.  In  all 
history  this  has  proved  the  only  effectual 
method  of  preventing  book-stealing. 

Libraries  of  chained  books  were  to  be  found 
throughout  the  civilized  world  up  to  the  latter 
part  of  the  fifteenth  century,  when  the  inven- 
tion of  printing  from  movable  type  gave  the 
book-loving  world  a  volume  cheap  and  plentiful 
enough  to  be  used  without  chains,  and  relegated 
the  libraries  of  chained  books  to  the  museums 
and  treasure-trove  rooms  of  great  institutions. 
At  the  same  time  it  became  clearly  evident  that 
something  was  urgently  needed  to  indicate  that 
3 


CONCERNING    BOOK-PLATES 

the  books  owned  by  institutions,  as  well  as  those 
rapidly  forming  into  private  libraries,  were  not 
public  property.  To  meet  this  want  the  book- 
plate was  born  into  the  kingdom,  to  be  the 
ever-present  silent  witness  against  the  book- 
thief.  At  first  little  thought  was  expended 
upon  it.  It  came  at  a  time  when  few  could 
read  and  write,  when  the  possession  of  books 
was  the  prerogative  of  three  favored  classes, 
the  clergy,  the  scholars,  and  the  scions  of  nobil- 
ity. So  in  its  earliest  form  it  was  simply  the 
copy  of  the  family  blazon.  The  coat  of  arms 
of  the  family  was  placed  on  all  articles  of  value, 
the  carriage,  the  horse-trappings,  fine  jewelry, 
silver  plate,  effects  of  swordsmanship,  etc. 
When  the  book  collections  began  to  form  in 
the  living-rooms,  the  same  mark  was  placed  on 
them,  with  little  thought  of  the  matter  and  no 
realization  of  the  long  line  of  great  and  illus- 
trious descendants  that  was  to  follow.  Many 
of  these  book-plates  were  without  names  or  even 
initials,  because  the  coat  of  arms  was  the  name, 
in  picture  writing.  The  earliest  book-plates 
known  to  collectors  to-day  fall  within  the  years 
4 


THE   SUBJECT    IN   GENEBAL 

1450-1490,  which  is  the  period  now  generally 
accepted  as  the  time  of  the  formal  introduction 
of  process-made  books.  From  that  date  to  the 
present  moment  book-plates  have  been  steadily 
multiplying  and  their  use  becoming  more  and 
more  general,  until  to-day  not  to  own  a  book- 
plate with  which  to  mark  your  books  is  to  argue 
yourself  quite  out  of  the  trend  of  culture  and 
education. 

In  order  to  impress  the  lesson  implied  by 
the  presence  of  the  book-plate,  verses  and 
couplets  were  added  to  reSnforce  it.  Some  of 
these  were  in  praise  of  books,  some  warnings 
against  the  unlawful  appropriation  of  the  treas- 
ured volume,  and  all  very  much  to  the  point,  as 
some  few  quotations  will  show. 

On  an  early  monastic  plate  is  this  rather 
startling  command:  "Ho  there!  take  me  back 
to  my  master. " 

"But  go  ye  rather  to  them  that  sell  and 
buy  for  yourselves. " 

"  Steal  not  this  book  my  honest  friend, 
For  fear  the  gallows  will  be  your  end. 

Up  the  ladder  and  down  the  rope, 
There  you'll  hang  until  you  choke. 

5 


CONCERNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Then  I'll  come  along  and  say, 

'Where's  that  book  yon  took  away  ?'" 
"  He  that  goes  a-borrowing,  goes  a-sorrowing. " 
"  My  book  is  one  thing  ;  my  boot  is  another  : 
Do  not  steal  the  one,  for  fear  of  the  other. " 
"Who  borrow  books  and  soon  restore, 
May  come  again  and  borrow  more. " 
"  Of  borrowed  books  I  take  no  loan, 
Nor  lend  a  book  that's  not  mine  own. " 
"If  thon  art  borrowed  by  a  friend  right  welcome  shall 
he  be, 
To  read,  to  study,  not  to  lend  but  to  return  to  me. 
Not  that  imparted  knowledge  doth  diminish  Wisdom's 
store. 
But  books,  I  find  if  often  lent,  return  to  me  no  more. " 
"  All  those  to  whom  this  book  I  lend,  I  give  one  word 

no  more. 
They  who  to  borrow  condescend,  should  graciously 
restore. " 

The  making  of  book-plates  has  kept  pace 
with  the  manufacture  of  the  books  themselves. 
Down  through  the  years  they  have  been  the 
mirrors,  reflecting  the  manners  and  customs  of 
each  age  in  which  they  have  been  used.  By 
means  of  them  the  student  of  to-day  gleans 
many  a  side-light  on  the  path  of  research.  As 
a  single  case  in  point,  that  might  be  duplicated 


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THE   SUBJECT    IN   GENERAL 

many  times,  one  might  cite  a  certain  type  of 
Heraldic  plate,  numerous  and  rather  puzzling  to 
one  not  understanding  the  reference  it  mutely 
records.  This  plate  represents  a  landscape, 
more  or  less  varied,  but  always  with  a  tree  in 
the  prominent  foreground.  On  this  tree  is 
hung  a  shield,  on  which  is  emblazoned  the 
coat  of  arms  of  the  individual  for  whom  the 
plate  was  made.  The  reference  is  to  a  rather 
picturesque  custom  connected  with  the  popular 
life  of  the  people  of  the  period  to  which  it 
belongs. 

During  the  public  festivals  and  tournaments, 
it  was  the  custom  for  the  knights  to  challenge 
the  world  for  their  right  to  bear  arms.  The 
knight  would  hang  his  shield,  beautifully  orna- 
mented with  his  heraldic  emblems,  near  the 
center  of  the  festivities.  A  follower  would 
remain  to  guard  the  shield  and  to  accept  the 
challenge  of  any  one  who  should  proclaim  his 
doubt  of  the  right  to  bear  arms,  by  casting  his 
spear  against  it. 

A  choice  return  awaits  the  collector  who 
will  master  the  science  of  heraldry.  Indeed, 
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CONCERNING   BOOK-PLATES 

very  little  headway  can  be  made  without  at 
least  some  knowledge  of  its  simplest  rules.  For 
example,  among  Heraldic  plates  will  be  found 
many  similar  in  design  but  modified  to  repre- 
sent different  members  of  the  same  family ;  as 
in  England,  the  eldest  son  bears  his  father's 
arms  with  a  label  as  a  mark  of  cadency ;  the 
second  son  bears  a  crescent ;  the  third  a  mullet 
(a  star  of  five  points)  ;  the  fourth  a  martlet  (a 
small  bird  without  beak  or  legs)  ;  the  fifth  an 
annulet  (a  ring)  ;  the  sixth  a  fleur-de-lys ;  the 
seventh  a  rose  ;  the  eighth  a  cross  moline  ;  and 
the  ninth  a  double  quatrefoil.  Heraldic  sources 
seem  to  discourage  large  families,  as  no  mark 
of  cadency  is  provided  for  sons  coming  after 
the  ninth.  On  the  death  of  the  father  the 
eldest  son  lays  aside  the  label.  In  Germany, 
though  now  seldom  used,  th§  label  is  the  mark 
of  the  younger  line  of  the  house.* 

For  many  years  the  Armorial  has  been  the 
chief  form  of  the  plate,  but  that  is  no  longer 
the  only  form,  nor  even  to-day  the  most  popu- 

*See  Leiningen-Westerburg.     "German  Book-plates." 
p.  21. 

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THE   SUBJECT    IN   GENERAL 


lar  type.  In  France  and  England  where  so 
long  the  Heraldic  devices  have  been  so  generally 
the  form  used,  one  sees  now  in  increasing  num- 
bers the  Library  Interior,  Literary,  Biographi- 
cal, Rebus,  Pictorial,  and  the  purely  Decorative. 
The  terms  Jacobean,  Rococo,  Chippendale  seem 
destined  to  remain  the  terms  of  description  of 
decadent  types  of  book-plates.  The  individuals 
who  are  the  happy  possessors  of  these  marks  of 
book-ownership  are  to  be  found  to-day,  not 
only  in  every  civilized  land,  but  in  every  walk 
of  life,  and  with  no  restrictions  as  to  sex,  age, 
or  previous  condition  of  servitude. 

Some  authorities,  however,  insist  that  one 
plate  does  not  meet  all  the  requirements  of  the 
case.  There  should  be  several.  Certainly 
there  is  abundant  evidence  that  such  at  least 
has  been  and  still  is  the  custom.  Most  of  the 
larger  and  more  wealthy  monasteries  used  more 
than  one  plate  in  marking  the  ownership  of  the 
books  constituting  their  libraries.  Baumburg, 
1570-1790,  had  eight  plates  engraved  on  cop- 
per;'and  Chiemsee,  1637-1764,  had  thirteen 
all  very  beautifully  designed  and  executed. 
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CONCERNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Nor  are  the  institutions  the  only  ones  whose 
past  record  shows  such  an  abundance  of  good 
things.  Frederick  August,  Duke  of  Bruns- 
wick-Ols,  circa  1789,  had  even  a  greater  number 
than  any  one  of  the  monasteries.  His  number 
reached  the  surprising  figure  of  sixteen.  But 
even  this  record  has  been  outdone  by  the  plate- 
owners  of  modern  times.  Count  zu  Leiningen- 
Westerburg  has  twenty-one  fine  plates,  all  in 
use,  and  the  Countess  has  eight  in  addition. 
These  twenty-nine  different  plates  used  in  their 
library  are  engravings,  etchings,  zinc  blocks, 
and  lithographs,  many  of  them  complimentary 
plates  from  famous  artists.  Egerton  Castle 
also  uses  several  plates,  each  differing  from  the 
others,  both  in  subject  and  value,  and  ranging 
from  a  neat  small  printed  label  to  the  exquisite 
Library  Interior  designed  for  him  by  his  talented 
wife.  Paul  Nicolaus  Ratajczak  and  Carl  Lan- 
genscheidt  each  use  eleven  different  plates. 

Various  reasons  are  assigned  for  this  prac- 
tice of  having  more  than  one  plate  in  a  library. 
It   was    customary  in    the    monastic    times    to 
celebrate  the  advent  of  each  new  Lord  Abbot 
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THE   SUBJECT    IN   GENEEAL 


by  the  creation  of  a  new  plate  for  the  library 
books,  and  as  the  years  passed  there  grew  up 
much  rivalry  to  see  which  Lord  Abbot  should 
have  the  most  beautiful  and  appropriate  design. 
Among  individuals  it  grew  out  of  the  different 
states  of  family  plates  and  various  forms  of 
armorial  expression,  out  of  alterations  of  the 
inscriptions,  the  use  of  nameless  or  anonymous 
plates,  and  quite  often  it  was  the  result  of 
quadruple  cuttings.  In  our  own  times  the  use 
is  more  premeditated  and  the  reasons  far  more 
personal.  In  many  cases  individuals  have  dif- 
ferent plates  in  order  to  have  in  their  books 
specimens  of  the  work  of  famous  artists.  Not 
a  few  provide  themselves  with  the  plates  that 
furnish  the  best  medium  of  exchange,  thus 
enabling  them  to  secure  a  valuable  collection 
much  more  easily  and  in  a  shorter  time  than 
could  be  done  in  exchanging  one  plate. 

Some  authorities  argue  that  more  than  one 
plate  is  an  absolute  necessity,  in  order  to  have 
cheap  plates  for  cheap  books,  medium  plates 
for  ordinary  books,  and  costly  engraved  .plates 
for  first  editions  and  rare  art  treasures.  Still 
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another  variation  is  to  have  a  special  plate  for 
each  general  subject-division  of  the  collection, 
namely,  a  pastoral  plate  for  travel,  recreation, 
and  description  ;  a  plate  with  sentiment  for  lit- 
erature and  fine  art,  etc. ;  each  one  being  a 
special  design  for  the  subject  for  which  it  is  to 
be  used.  Still  other  authorities  prefer  one 
plate  of  a  highly  artistic  value,  made  by  a 
recognized  artist,  and  designed  with  special 
reference  to  the  characteristics  of  the  owner  of 
the  library,  rather  than  of  the  books  into  which 
it  is  to  be  pasted.  This  has  always  seemed  to 
the  author  a  more  consistent  view  to  take. 

In  every  book-lover's  library,  books  are 
arranged  by  the  subjects,  not  the  values  com- 
mercially of  the  works.  Necessarily  a  poorly 
made  book  must  often  be  placed  next  to  one  of 
exquisite  workmanship.  They  share  alike  the 
richly  furnished  room  with  its  comforts  and 
luxuries ;  they  stand  side  by  side  on  the  same 
polished  shelves ;  why  then  should  they  not 
share  alike  also  the  choice  name-plate  selected 
by  their  owner  to  represent  himself  ?  It  is  not 
always  the  Morells  and  the  Zaehnsdorfs  that 
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are  the  real  treasures  of  our  libraries.  Often 
the  heart  clings  most  fondly  and  the  hand  seeks 
most  eagerly  some  shabby  "poor  relation"  of 
the  book-world,  a  cheap  reprint,  perhaps,  in  a 
stifip  board  cover.  Only  its  well-worn  condition 
and  its  owner's  beautiful  plate  in  it,  tell  the 
casual  visitor  how  much  it  is  treasured. 


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SPECIAL    BOOK-PLATES   AND    THEIK   VALUES 

"  These  are  the  famed  insignia  of  my  Sires, 
Which  in  their  proper  tinctures  thou  may'st  see. " 

Inscription  on  the  KnOringen  plate  of  1565. 

Although  the  individuals  and  the  institutions 
collecting  book-plates  may  now  be  numbered 
by  the  hundreds,  it  may  yet  be  stated  with- 
out fear  of  contradiction  that  no  one  collection 
exists  anywhere  that  is  even  approximately 
complete.  Nor  indeed  could  any  one  person 
tabulate  a  list  of  all  the  plates  or  even  all  the 
plates  of  special  interest  that  might,  if  brought 
together,  form  a  representative  laboratory  in 
which  collectors  might  work  out  their  own 
lesser  accumulations.  The  student  in  this 
department  of  knowledge  will  not  travel  far  on 
the  road  to  wisdom  before  becoming  aware  that 
one  of  the  greatest  delights  of  this  subject  is 
the  series  of  constant  surprises  that  one  meets 

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in  finding  rare  and  hitherto  unknown  specimens, 
not  found  in  any  of  the  well-known  collections. 

Last  summer  while  the  author  was  mousing 
around  in  some  of  the  cities  of  Italy  looking 
for  book-plates,  the  delight  of  a  genuine  "find" 
was  unexpectedly  experienced.  In  soaking  off 
a  seventeenth  century  plate  from  an  old  book- 
cover  purchased  from  a  journeyman  binder,  a 
tiny  plaie  of  exquisite  engraving  of  a  still 
earlier  date  was  found  beneath  the  second  and 
upper  plate.  Both  plates  were  carefully 
removed,  cleaned,  and  mounted  for  study.  The 
most  careful  investigation  failed  to  reveal  any 
recorded  instance  of  this  plate  being  in  the 
hands  of  any  collector.  Before  the  summer 
was  over,  it  had  been  taken  in  turn  to  all  of  the 
great  collections  in  Italy,  Germany,  France,  and 
England,  without  finding  its  mates  or  any  rec- 
ords concerning  it.  Its  history  has  formed  the 
pleasant  study  of  the  leisure  hours  of  this  win- 
ter and  will  be  given  to  collectors  in  some  future 
publication. 

In  few  fields  of  intellectual  work  is  such  an 
experience  possible.  In  the  domain  of  pure 
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bibliography  the  collector  of  first  editions,  rare 
copies,  and  out  of  print  books,  has  definite  limits 
and  well-known  boundaries,  fixed  by  the  cease- 
less toil  of  thousands  of  workers.  Collectors  of 
coins,  stamps,  autographs,  engravings,  old  china, 
playbills,  and  railroad  tickets,  likewise  work 
within  circles  of  known  diameters,  with  few  if 
any  specimens  whose  value  is  an  unknown 
quantity.  The  guide-posts  are  well-placed  and 
clearly  marked  by  exhaustive  handbooks  and 
elaborate  manuals. 

Only  in  the  world  of  book-plates  may  the 
collector  still  feel  the  thrill  of  discovery  and 
make  out  the  initial  papers  of  identification  and 
classification.  Not  the  least  part  of  this  "pride 
of  excavation"  is  to  find  some  rare  specimen  of 
American  plates  in  the  shops  and  quays  of 
foreign  cities  labeled  "English  Armorial"  but 
which,  with  the  joy  of  conscious  wisdom,  you 
know  have  all  been  corralled  by  our  own  famous 
Charles  Dexter  Allen,  and  are  shelved,  num- 
bered, and  written  up  in  that  Blue-Book-tabula- 
tion  of  American  greatness,  "  The  List  of  Early 
American  Book-plates.  "  The  author's  own  col- 
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lection  of  early  American  plates  was  largely 
secured  in  foreign  cities  at  greatly  reduced 
rates,  because  the  dealers  who  sold  them  did 
not  know  them  as  the  plates  of  Americans, 
since  in  many  cases  they  were  of  English  work- 
manship. 

Book-plates  may  be  of  special  interest  and 
value  for  one  or  more  of  many  reasons ;  they 
may  belong  to  a  series  of  very  early  plates,  as 
the  woodcut  of  Johannes  Knabensberg,  called 
Igler,  Chaplain  to  the  family  of  Schonstett, 
about  the  year  1450,  which  is  considered  the 
earliest  German  book-plate  at  present  known  to 
collectors  and  desired  greatly,  without  much 
prospect  of  possession,  by  the  great  army  of 
collectors.  One  copy  of  this  plate  has  been 
valued  by  its  owner,  Ludwig  Rosenthal,  of 
Munich,  at  X30.* 

But  plates  are  also  valuable  and  interesting 
from  the  fact  that  they  are  the  work  of  well- 
known  famous  artists,  and  the  value  and  inter- 
est in  these  cases  is  quite  apart  from  any  interest 
in  the  owners  of  the  plates.     The  book-plates 

*  Ex  Libris  Journal,  v.  3,  p.  175. 

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that  were  wrought  by  such  artists  as  Albrecht 
Dtirer,  Hogarth,  Bartolozzi,  Nathaniel  Hurd, 
the  Mavericks,  father  and  son,  and  many  others 
of  equal  fame,  will  always  have,  for  that  reason 
alone,  special  claim  to  attention.  It  may  also 
be  that  the  artist  of  the  plate  is  a  personality 
whom  all  delight  to  honor  for  other  reasons 
than  that  he  is  or  was  an  artist.  The  few  plates 
known  to  have  been  made  by  Paul  Revere  are 
valuable  to-day,  not  on  account  of  the  artistic 
work  on  them,  for  that  was  really  quite  poor, 
but  because  every  one,  or  every  American  at 
least,  loves  the  memory  of  the  man  who  rode 
throughout  the  night  to  awaken  "every  Middle- 
sex village  and  farm, "  and  thus,  by  his  heroism 
and  self-denial,  saved  the  life  of  a  nation. 
Again,  the  value  and  interest  may  be  from  his- 
torical events,  rather  than  from  personal  con- 
siderations of  any  kind.  French  plates  of  the 
Revolution  period  have  a  value  all  their  own 
because  they  show  so  unmistakably  the  altered 
conditions  and  the  change  of  environment  that 
rendered  it  necessary  for  plate-owners  to  have 
new  plates  adorned  with  liberty-caps  and  bear- 
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ing  Republican  inscriptions ;  that  made  it 
decidedly  unhealthy  to  use  plates  bearing  any 
of  the  signs  of  noble  birth. 

Every  plate,  also,  is  subject  to  another  kind 
of  valuation  in  accordance  with  the  manner  of 
its  reproduction  and  to  certain  forms  or  stages 
of  the  plate-impressions  themselves. 

Three  well-known  forms  of  impressions  are 
recognized  to-day,  namely,  the  proof  remarque, 
the  proof  signed  in  autograph  by  its  artist,  and 
the  ordinary  impression,  such  as  is  used  in  the 
books  of  a  library  as  a  mark  of  their  ownership. 
In  the  days  before  steel-facing  was  known  to 
engravers,  the  first  few  prints  from  the  engraved 
or  etched  copperplates  were  of  a  particular 
richness  and  brilliancy.  As  the  printing  from 
the  plate  went  on,  year  after  year,  the  engraving 
or  etching  gradually  wore  down  and  the  prints 
from  it  in  the  same  degree  lost  their  richness 
and  brilliancy.  To  mark  the  first  few  impres- 
sions of  the  plate  at  the  time  of  its  greatest 
depth  and  tone  the  remarque,  a  small  picture 
delicately  etched  near  the  bottom  of  the  plate, 
was  used  ;  after  ten  or  fifteen,  rarely  twenty-five, 
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impressions  were  made,  the  remarque  was 
erased  from  the  plate,  so  that  only  the  impres- 
sions so  marked  were  used  to  judge  of  the 
character  of  the  original  engraving.  Both 
because  of  their  own  intrinsic  value  and  for 
their  rarity  they  are  much  prized  by  all  art 
collectors.  In  these  days,  when  all  good  plates 
are  steel-faced,  the  copper  is  unaffected  by  the 
amount  of  the  impressions  taken  from  it  and 
the  last  plate-copy  is  as  fine  as  the  first.  So 
it  has  come  to  pass  that  to-day  the  famous 
remarque,  the  "  proof -before-letters  "  of  the  past, 
is  nothing  but  a  sentiment  and  a  variety  of 
plate  prized  because  of  its  own  dainty  beauty 
and  treasured  for  its  rarity. 

Among  the  proof  remarque  plates  in  the 
author's  collection  that  are  of  special  interest 
are  the  following : 
Edward  VII,  King  of  England,  1902. 

This  is  a  set  of  three  remarque  proofs 
signed  in  autograph  by  George  W.  Eve, 
who  made  them.  Mr.  Eve  was  the  designer 
and  etcher  of  these  plates  when,  in  1898, 
they  were  prepared  for  Her  late  Majesty, 
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Queen  Victoria.  The  plates  are  in  three 
sizes  and  of  three  varieties.  The  large  plate 
for  the  folios  has  the  royal  arms  and  crest  in 
full,  surmounted  by  the  monogram,  "  V.  R. 
I.,"  in  lettering  of  Mr.  Eve's  own  designing. 
Above  the  shield,  on  either  side  and  each 
within  the  garter,  are  the  badges  of  St. 
George,  the  patron  saint,  and  Edward  III, 
its  founder.  Both  are  symbolical  of  the 
fact  that  Windsor  Castle  is  the  special 
home  of  the  Knights  of  the  Garter,  being 
the  scene  of  the  original  institution  of  the 
order.  The  inscription  is  "  Ex.  Bibliotheca 
Regia.  in  Castel :  de  Windesor."  Below 
is  a  band  of  intertwined  oak  and  laurel  with 
the  Tudor  rose  in  the  center ;  and  sur- 
mounting the  crest  is  an  imperial  crown  in 
Tudor  style,  conceived  in  the  spirit  of  the 
fine  series  of  crowns  on  the  exterior  of  St. 
George's  Chapel  at  Windsor. 

The  quarto  book-plate  is  of  course  less 
elaborate  and  has  only  the  royal  arms  sur- 
mounted by  an  imperial  crown  and  the 
same   monogram   and    below,  the    Union 
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badge,  the  rose,  the  thistle,  and  the  sham- 
rock. The  inscription  is  in  English, 
"Royal  Library,  Windsor  Castle."  The 
smallest  of  the  three  has  only  the  crest  and 
the  monogram  and  the  same  inscription  in 
English. 

In  1902  Mr.  Eve  remodeled  these  plates 
to  be  suitable  for  the  use  of  King  Edward. 
He  changed  the  monogram  to  "E.  R." 
omitting  the  "I."  entirely.  By  the  intro- 
duction of  some  excellent  Irish  interlacing, 
by  way  of  ornamentation,  he  greatly 
strengthened  and  improved  the  original 
plates.  He  then  added  to  each  the  beau- 
tiful remarque.  The  plates  thus  marked 
were  used  to  make  fifty  impressions  of 
each  plate,  after  which  the  remarque  was 
erased  from  each  plate  and  the  copper 
re-faced  for  use.  At  Mr.  Eve's  suggestion 
and  through  his  kind  gift  of  the  sets,  these 
fifty  sets  were  sold  during  the  summer  of 
1902  for  X8  8s.  to  collectors  and  the 
money  given  to  the  King's  Hospital  Fund. 
The  entire  lot  was  so  quickly  taken  up 
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that  they  were  all  gone  before  some  col- 
lectors heard  anything  about  them.  To-day 
they  are  so  scarce  that  when  recently  a 
collector  offered  $200  for  a  set  he  was 
unable  to  find  any  one  willing  to  accept 
his  offer.  These  sets  will  doubtless  remain 
in  the  hands  of  those  to  whom  they  were 
originally  sold,  until  Death,  that  Distribu- 
tor of  all  well-formed  collections,  calls  for 
a  new  distribution  and  arrangement  and 
places  them  in  new  combinations.  We 
feel  sure  the  future  can  but  increase  the 
interest  and  value  of  these  plates. 
Prescott,  Walter  Conway. 

This  gentleman  is  the  happy  possessor 
of  three  proof  remarque  plates  made  for 
him  by  famous  artists.  One  plate  is  by 
Charles  W.  Sherborn,  of  London,  and  the 
other  two  by  J.  Winfred  Spenceley,  of 
Boston. 

The  plate  by  Mr.  Sherborn  is  Armorial 

and  engraved  in  that  artist's  best  style. 

The  remarque  is  a  small  bird  resting  on 

a  Scotch  thistle  and  pecking  at  one  of  its 

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blossoms.     Only  a  few  of  these  were  made. 

The  1897  plate  by  Mr.  Spenceley  was 
intended  for  use  in  the  books  on  pottery 
and  porcelain,  of  which  the  owner  of  the 
plate  has  a  notable  collection.  An  open 
book  shows  the  family  crest  and  the  name 
and  on  the  other  side  the  arms  of  Harvard, 
where  Mr.  Prescott  graduated  in  1879. 
The  book  stands  in  front  of  a  large  orna- 
mental plate  of  circular  form  which  is  sur- 
mounted with  inscriptions.  The  remarque 
is  a  curious  old  clock  with  its  hanging 
weights. 

The  plate  of  1898  by  Mr.  Spenceley 
represents  an  attractive  mountain  view  set 
in  an  ornamental  oval.  Below  are  the 
owner's  favorite  authors.  The  remarque 
is  a  delicately  etched  guide-post  on  a  lonely 
-  country  road. 
Eaton,  Levi  W. 

This   plate   by     J.  Winfred   Spenceley 

represents  a  corner    in  a  literary  "den" 

with  a  charming  seat  by  an  open  window, 

through  which  is  seen  a  distant  view  of 

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river  and  mountain  landscape,  that  must 
indeed  prove  a  daily  inspiration  to  the 
occupant  of  the  room.  The  favorite  books 
lie  in  easy  reach  of  the  window-seat.  The 
plate,  like  all  of  Mr.  Spenceley's  work,  is 
signed  and  dated.  The  remarque  is  a  por- 
trait of  Mr.  Spenceley,  etched  by  his  fellow 
neighbor  in  the  Studio  Building  and 
brother  artist,  Edmund  H.  Garrett.  It 
is  an  excellent  likeness  and  greatly  prized 
by  collectors  of  remarque  plates  and  plates 
made  by  Mr.  Spenceley. 
Dixson,  Zella  Allen. 

This  is  also  a  plate  made  by  J.  Winfred 
Spenceley.  In  its  type  it  is  a  Biographical 
Literary  plate.  The  upper  circle  represents 
"Merino  Farm,"  on  the  road  between 
Marietta  and  Zanesville,  Ohio,  so  named 
for  the  large  number  of  merino  goats  on 
the  farm.  It  has  local  associations  that 
make  it  a  place  of  some  historical  interest 
to  inhabitants  of  the  state.  It  was  the 
summer  home  of  the  owner  of  the  plate 
during  her  girlhood.  Here  the  family 
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came  for  the  rest  and  change  of  rural  life 
during  the  summer  months.  The  center- 
piece represents  her  present  summer  home, 
"Wisteria  Cottage,"  at  Granville,  Ohio, 
where  she  spends  the  non-resident  quarter 
of  her  university  life,  where  is  located  her 
private  library,  and  for  which  her  private 
press,  from  which  several  privately  printed 
books  have  issued,  is  named.  For  these 
things  Mr.  Spenceley  has  made  the  mant- 
ling of  the  plate  in  wisteria  vines.  The 
Lamp  of  Truth,  the  World  of  Books,  with 
the  contribution  of  "Subject  Index  to 
Fiction  "  to  it  by  the  author,  complete  the 
design.  The  remarque  is  a  beautiful  Pari- 
sian Angora  cat,  keeping  open  the  leaves 
of  a  book  with  his  dainty  paw.  "  Major 
March  and,"  like  his  mistress,  has  two 
homes ;  when  she  is  busy  in  her  office  at 
the  University  of  Chicago  Library,  he  lives 
with  her  at  her  city  residei^ce,  but  when 
summer  comes  he  also  travels  to  the 
country  and  spends  the  beautiful  sunny 
days  under  the  great  elm  trees  on  the  lawn 
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of  Wisteria  Cottage.  When  his  mistress 
reads,  he  sits  in  her  lap  and  patiently  keeps 
the  place  with  his  paw,  lifting  it  when  a 
new  page  must  be  turned.  Mr.  Spenceley 
has  represented  him  in  this  attitude  in  the 
remarque.  There  were  only  a  very  few  of 
these  made  before  the  remarque  was 
erased.  None  of  them  have  as  yet  changed 
hands. 

Marshall,  Julian. 

This  plate  is  one  made  by  E.  D.  French 
for  its  owner.  It  is  in  the  artist's  usual 
exquisite  workmanship.  The  style  is  that 
of  the  Book-pile,  but  it  has  been  modified 
from  the  usual  form  by  the  introduction  of 
the  symbols  of  the  tastes  and  occupations 
of  its  owner.  The  remarque  represents 
the  artist  at  work  on  the  plate.  This 
remarque  plate  is  seldom  seen  in  collections 
on  account  of  its  great  rarity.  It  has  only 
once  been  offered  for  sale.  In  1901  it  was 
sold  in  connection  with  a  general  collection 
of  ex-libris,  bringing  $10. 

Aylward,  Frederick  Graham  and  Annie  E. 
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A  charming  plate,  made  by  W.  F.  Hop- 
son.  It  represents  a  Book- pile  surmounted 
by  the  Lamp  of  Truth  and  resting  on  the 
name-panels.  The  plate  itself  is  the  rep- 
resentation of  a  book,  around  the  outer 
border  of  the  cover  of  which  is  arranged 
the  motto  "  The  wise  return,  that  they  again 
may  borrow."  At  the  lower  edge  in  the 
form  of  a  locket  is  the  family  crest.  The 
remarque  is  a  small  circle,  about  the  size 
of  a  penny,  in  which  is  represented  a  view 
of  a  city  built  on  a  river.  The  name  of 
this  city  is  marked  above  the  circle, 
"Hereford,"  and  below  the  circle^" Eng- 
land." This  also  is  a  rare  remarque  and 
seldom  seen  in  collections. 

We  give  the  interpretation  of  this  plate  in 
Mr.  Aylward's  own  words  :  "This  is  a  wood- 
cut by  Mr.  W.  F.  Hopson,  of  New  Haven, 
U.  S.  A.,  based  on  my  1893  plate,  in  which 
the  motto  and  arrangement  of  books  were 
my  own,  but  the  rest  designed  by  my 
friend,  Mr.  W.  E.  Home,  of  'The  Star.' 
The  motto  is  as  before,  but  the  books  differ 
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from  those  of  the  original  group.  The 
lighted  lamp  on  the  book-pile  is  significant 
of  the  diJBPusion  of  knowledge  through 
books.  The  comer  ornaments  are  copies 
of  book-binders'  designs.  Those  on  the 
right  hand  (top  and  bottom)  are  from  an 
example  of  binding  by  the  monks  of  a 
German  monastery,  and  that  in  the  top  left 
hand  comer  is  from  a  Renaissance  pattern, 
while  the  bottom  one  is  a  fragment  of  a 
Grolier  design — 16  th.  century  Venetian 
work.  The  chain  pattern  border  from  a 
Roger  Payne  binding  has  been  added.  It 
was  a  happy  idea  of  Mr.  Hopson's  to  put 
the  whole  on  an  old  book  cover.  The  arms 
on  the  book  marker  are  adapted  from  an 
anonymous  book-plate  used  by  a  distant 
relative — Dr.  Peter  Aylward  of  Ports- 
mouth. This  coat  (with  the  lozenges  or) 
is  given  by  Edmondson,  (1780)  as  belong- 
ing to  the  Aylwards  of  Suffolk.  Although 
of  little  monetary  value  the  books  are  of 
great  personal  interest  and  somewhat  indi- 
cate our  tastes." 

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The  signed  proofs  are  like  the  remarque 
proofs,  the  early  impressions  of  the  plate,  and 
are  signed  in  autograph  by  the  artist  to  signify 
that  having  tested  the  printing  of  the  plate  by 
taking  off  these  first  impressions  and  finding  it 
working  properly  and  in  form  and  outline  as  he 
had  originally  intended  that  it  should  be,  he 
signs  his  approval  of  the  finished  work.  This 
is  the  usual  form  of  proofs  at  present.  Many 
collectors  limit  their  selections  to  the  plates  in 
this  form.  Proofs  are  sometimes  found  without 
the  autograph  signature.  These  have  no  value 
to  collectors,  other  than  as  pictures  to  place  on 
the  walls  of  the  library  room  in  which  the  col- 
lection is  kept.  The  signed  plate,  unlike  the 
signed  proof,  is  not  signed  in  autograph,  but 
has  the  name  and  usually  the  date  engraved  in 
the  plate  itself.  Naturally  then  this  engraved 
name  is  also  a  part  of  the  autograph  proof  and 
in  addition  to  it. 
Ohio  Memorial  Aicove,  iManiia,  1902. 

The  Ohio  Memorial  Gift  Plate  of  the 
Columbus  Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American    Revolution    to   the    American 
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Library  in  Manila  is  a  plate  with  a  mission, 
presented  by  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Rath-Merrill 
to  the  Columbus  Chapter  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution  for  the  purpose 
of  not  only  marking  the  books  in  the  Ohio 
Memorial  Alcove  of  the  American  Library 
in  Manila,  but  also  of  purchasing  additional 
volumes  for  this  collection  through  the 
sale  of  proofs  signed  in  autograph  and  the 
ordinary  impressions  of  the  plate  to  individ- 
uals and  to  institutions  making  collections 
of  ex-libris,  after  the  manner  of  the  sale  of 
the  proof  remarque  plates  of  King  Edward's 
book-plate  for  the  benefit  of  the  King's 
Hospital  Fund. 

The  scale  of  prices  has  been  arranged  as 
follows : 

Remarque  proofs each  $8.00 

Autograph  proofs each    4.00 

Signed  proofs  on  Japan  paper each     2.26 

Large  paper  copies ,  each    1.50 

Small  impressions each    0.75 

Key   to    symbolism each     0.25 

The  need  for  additional  books  for  this 
library  gave  rise  to  the  idea  suggested  by 
Mrs.  Merrill  to  design  and  have  engraved 
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by  one  of  the  most  noted  book-plate 
engravers  a  Symbolical  book-plate  which 
should  be  a  monument  of  Beauty,  Truth, 
Patriotism,  and  Love.  The  books  contain- 
ing these  plates  will  not  only  satisfy  the 
great  book-hunger  of  the  people  in  these 
far-off  islands,  but  will  speak  of  the  con- 
tinuous memory  and  unity  of  action  of  the 
Ohio  Daughters  in  their  behalf,  and  will 
bear  eloquent  witness  to  the  liberal  and 
earnest  support  of  the  friends  who  have 
made  this  plan  possible  through  their  pur- 
chase of  the  book-plates. 

The  design  of  the  ex-libris  is  framed  in 
a  border  of  buckeyes,  which  is  the  emblem 
of  the  state  of  Ohio.  In  the  center  of  the 
design  is  a  tablet  upon  which  rests  the 
Holy  Bible  surrounded  by  the  thirteen  and 
four  stars.  Around  the  tablet  is  the  Palm 
Wreath  of  Victory,  while  above  it  is  a 
winged  hour-glass,  held  by  a  chain  which 
unites  and  weaves  together  in  a  graceful 
way  every  element  used  in  making  the 
design.  Behind  and  supporting  this  tablet 
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on  either  side  are  our  American  flags,  the 
staffs  of  which  cross  beneath  the  tablet 
and  pierce  the  three  shields  which  seem 
to  rest  upon  the  tops  of  the  bookcases,  the 
latter  forming  the  interior  of  a  library  or 
alcove.  The  shields  contain,  on  the  dexter 
side,  the  emblem  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution  ;  on  the  sinister  side, 
the  seal  of  the  state  of  Ohio.  In  the  center 
and  directly  over  the  arched  window  in 
the  library  alcove  is  the  shield  containing 
the  arms  of  the  United  States.  Through 
the  open  window  are  to  be  seen  ships  and 
emblems  of  war,  in  reference  to  the  navy 
and  the  army.  On  either  side  of  the 
library  alcove  is  a  Corinthian  column, 
encircled  by  a  Chain  of  Love  and  sur- 
mounted by  the  Lamp  of  Truth.  The 
tablet  at  the  base  bears  the  inscription 
"  Ex-libris,  Ohio  Memorial  Alcove,  Manila, 
1902." 

There  will  also  be  an  illuminated  key 
prepared  by  Mrs.  Merrill  to  be  presented 
to  purchasers  of  these  plates. 
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At  the  time  this  book  went  to  press, 
William  F.  Hopson  had  just  been  selected 
as  the  engraver  of  this  plate. 
Book-plates  have  still  another  form  of 
interest  and  value  in  the  technical  manner  of 
their  creation.  In  the  past  they  were  made  in 
one  of  two  ways :  (a)  by  engraved  wooden 
blocks  with  lines  cut  in  relief  to  print  with  a 
letter-press  ;  or  (b)  by  engraved  copperplates 
having  the  design  cut  into  the  polished  surface 
and  printed  by  plate-process.  As  none  of  the 
modern  processes  were  in  use  until  a  compara- 
tively recent  date,  the  difficulty  of  determining 
the  process  by  which  the  old  plates  were  made 
is  not  great.  Even  an  amateur  can  readily 
distinguish  between  a  woodcut  and  a  copper- 
engraving  and  estimate  the  value  from  that 
standpoint  quite  correctly,  but  with  modem 
plates  all  that  has  become  changed  and  the  col- 
lector often  finds  among  the  specimens  many 
that  can  not  readily  be  distinguished  and  is 
completely  at  a  loss  to  tell  how  they  have  been 
reproduced  from  the  original  design.  Wood- 
cuts and  engravings  from  copper  are  still  with 
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US,  but  SO  are  also  a  perfect  army  of  machine 
processes  that  are  neither  woodcuts  nor  copper- 
engravings,  yet  may  pass  for  either  with  the 
uninitiated  or  have  characteristics  of  their  own. 
Among  the  most  common  processes  for  book- 
plate impressions  might  be  mentioned  the  line- 
engraved  blocks,  half-tones,  chromos,  calotypes, 
lithographs,  photoetchings,  and  zinc  blocks. 

By  far  the  greatest  number  of  book-plates 
of  special  interest  and  value  are  those  made  for 
celebrities ;  the  individuals  whose  names  are 
associated  in  our  minds  with  the  great  achieve- 
ments of  life.  Such  persons  are  to  be  found  in 
every  age,  in  every  land,  and  in  every  walk  of 
life.  Among  those  especially  treasured  by  the 
author  are  the  following  : 
Alfieri,  Vittorio.     1 749- 1 803.     Of  Florence,  Italy. 

A  great  Italian  dramatist.  His  style 
was  so  bold  and  so  devoid  of  the  usual 
elaborate  ornamentation  of  language  that 
he  became  the  model  of  a  distinct  School 
of  Italian  Drama.  His  collected  works 
were  not  published  until  after  his  death. 
In  the  years  of  1805-1815,  the  Countess 
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of  Albany,  who  for  more  than  twenty  years 
had  been  his  faithful  friend,  collected  them 
and  had  them  issued  in  an  edition  of  35 
volumes.  His  confidence  in  his  own  ability 
to  do  work  that  would  live  after  him  seems 
reflected  in  his  book-plate.  It  is  a  beau- 
tifully engraved  representation  of  Father 
Time,  who  has  dropped  the  scythe  with 
which  he  cuts  down  the  members  of  the 
human  race  and  stands  in  speechless  admir- 
ation, gazing  at  the  pile  of  books  written 
by  Vittorio  Alfieri. 

Bancroft,  George.  1800-1891.     Of  Washington,  District  of 
Columbia. 

The  famous  historian,  statesman,  and 
diplomat.  Author  of  "History  of  the 
United  States,"  1834-1874  ;  and  "  History 
of  the  Formation  of  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States,"  1882. 

His  plate  exists  in  two  forms,  alike 
except  as  to  the  motto,  which  in  the  one  is 
in  Greek,  and  in  the  other  in  Latin.  The 
plates  are  undated,  but  were  made  about 
1850.  These  book-plates  sell  in  public 
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auctions  for  about  $3. 

Bastille.     Of  Paris,  France. 

The  terrors  of  this  prison  reached  their 
height  in  the  days  of  Richelieu,  1624- 
1642,  when  Leclerc  du  Tremblay  was 
Commandant.  Louis  XI  added  the  horrors 
of  the  "iron  cages "  and  had  the  vault  cells 
built  beneath  the  towers  on  a  level  with 
the  waters  of  the  moat.  The  mobs  of  the 
French  Revolution  forced  the  prison  to 
surrender  and  destroyed  every  thing  that 
was  in  the  bastille  and  out  of  it,  including 
the  library.  One  must  always  remember 
that  the  Chateau  Royal  de  la  Bastille  was 
not  always  primarily  intended  for  a  prison, 
but  was  built  as  a  strong  fort  to  protect 
Paris  from  enemies.  Gradually  it  became 
a  place  of  confinement  for  persons  who 
had  committed  political  offences.  Being 
one  of  the  royal  castles,  its  governors  must 
always  have  been  persons  of  high  rank. 
The  book-plates  of  this  library  are  all  that 
now  remains  to  tell  of  the  books  they  loved. 
Bell,  Alexander  Melville.  1818-  Of  Washington,  District 
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of  Columbia. 

Inventor  of  a  phonetic  system  of  visible 
speech,  lecturer  and  author  of  many  works 
on  philological  subjects.  Father  of  Alex- 
ander Graham  Bell,  the  inventor  of  the 
"Bell  Telephone."  Mr.  Bell's  book-plate 
represents  the  field  of  work  in  which  he 
has  spent  his  life  :  a  pair  of  lips,  a  key, 
and  an  open  book  are  the  symbols  by 
which  the  author  of  "  Principles  of  Speech 
and  Cure  of  Stammering"  makes  known 
his  personality.  Designed  by  its  owner 
and  executed  by  a  local  lithographer  in 
Washington  in  1850. 
Bray,  Thomas.     1656-1730.     Of  London,  England. 

Doctor  Bray  was  an  English  clergyman 
who  believed  in  the  power  of  a  good  book. 
He  was  the  Andrew  Carnegie  of  the  seven- 
teenth century.  He  was  a  man  who 
devoted  his  life  and  his  income  to  the 
founding  of  libraries.  Appointed  soon 
after  his  graduation  from  Oxford  to  have 
the  charge  of  sending  out  clergymen  to 
the  colonies,  he  early  learned  how  meager 
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is  the  library  of  a  country  parson.  In 
carrying  out  the  plans  of  the  General 
Assembly  he  discovered  that  most  of  the 
men  who  were  willing  to  be  sent  to  the 
American  Colonies  as'preachers  and  pastors 
were  too  poor  to  buy  for  themselves  the 
books  that  were  absolutely  necessary  to  the 
proper  conduct  of  their  work.  To  meet 
this  difficulty  he  founded  a  series  of  now 
famous  libraries,  to  be  placed  in  the  locali- 
ties where  the  clergymen  were  sent.  To 
properly  equip  this  organization  he  used 
all  that  he  could  possibly  save  from  his 
own  salary  to  furnish  the  libraries  with 
books.  When  his  personal  friends,  from 
time  to  time,  sought  to  restore  to  him  these 
expenditures,  he  only  added  their  gifts  to 
the  general  fund  and  equipped  more 
libraries. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  Doctor  Bray 
had  founded  and  fully  equipped  eighty 
parochial  libraries  in  England  and  thirty - 
nine  in  America,  including  the  one  started 
at  Annapolis,  Maryland,  then  numbering 
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over  1000  volumes.  Before  his  death  he 
provided  for  the  continuation  of  his  work 
by  organizing  a  band  of  young  men  called 
"Doctor  Bray's  Associates  for  founding 
Clerical  Libraries  and  Supporting  Negro 
Schools,"  which  organization  still  exists 
under  the  name  of  "Bray's  Institution  for 
Founding  Libraries,"  with  headquarters  at 
19  Delahay  Street,  Westminster.  From 
Doctor  Bray's  scheme  came  also  the  organ- 
izations known  as  the  "Society  for  Pro- 
moting Christian  Knowledge"  and  the 
"Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gos- 
pell  in  Foreign  Parts."  In  1698  King's 
Chapel,  Boston,  received  a  library  of  200 
books  for  public  use  from  this  source. 

We  catch  another  glimpse  of  this  famous 
unselfish  old  man  in  the  study  of  the  early 
library  legislation  of  the  United  States. 
The  first  library  legislation  of  our  country 
was  for  the  preservation  of  private  libraries 
used  for  public  good.  The  records  show 
that  the  earliest  enactment  was  made  at 
the  request  of  one  Doctor  Thomas  Bray, 
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of  England.  On  November  16,  1700,  the 
Legislature  of  South  Carolina  passed  an 
Act  on  his  behalf  to  protect  the  books  that 
he,  as  Founder  of  the  "Society  for  the 
Propagation  of  the  Gospell  in  Foreign 
Parts,"  was  sending  to  the  colonies.  Again 
in  1715  North  Carolina  also  passed  a  library 
law  for  the  preservation  of  a  library  sent 
over  by  one  Doctor  Thomas  Bray,  of  Lon- 
don, "to  Bath-Town,  for  the  use  of  the 
inhabitants  of  the  Parish  of  St.  Thomas,  in 
Pamptico."  (Pamlico.)  The  law  pre- 
scribed the  length  of  time  the  books  could 
be  kept  by  the  borrower,  regulated  like 
the  systems  of  classification  in  those  days, 
by  the  size  of  the  books  :  a  folio  for  four 
months  ;  a  quarto  for  two  months  ;  and  an 
octavo  for  one  month  or  under.  This  law 
further  provided  the  imposition  of  a  fine, 
three  times  the  value  of  the  book,  for  loss 
or  serious  injury.  If  the  fine  however 
could  not  be  paid,  the  law  directed  that 
the  offender  should  be  imprisoned. 

Owing  to  the  many  libraries  that   have 
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been  destroyed  by  soldiers   and  by   fires, 
these  book-plates    are  rare  and   hard   to 
secure  in  any  of  their  several  forms. 
Byrd,  William.     1674-1744.     Of  Westover,  Virginia. 

Colonel  Byrd's  library  was  housed  in  the 
famous  Westover  Mansion,  a  typical  colo- 
nial residence,  with  a  frontage  on  the  James 
river,  and  within  easy  reach  of  Richmond. 
Into  these  books  were  pasted  the  charming 
impressions  of  his  plate  :  book-plates  that 
to-day  are  among  the  earliest  and  rarest 
of  American  plates.  There  were  many 
William  Byrds,  but  that  fact  does  not  ren- 
der it  a  very  difficult  problem,  when  the 
evidence  is  all  in,  to  decide  upon  the  true 
ownership  of  these  interesting  specimens 
of  ex-libris.  They  doubtless  belonged  to 
the  second  William  Byrd,  the  author  of 
the  "Westover  Manuscripts."  He  had 
been  sent  to  England  to  be  educated  and 
had  probably  had  the  plate  engraved  to 
use  in  the  books  he  is  known  to  have  pur- 
chased for  use  in  his  future  American 
home.  Experts  place  the  date  of  this 
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plate  at  1725  and  if  that  is  true,  then  it 
certainly  could  not  have  been  made  in 
America,  as  there  was  no  American  engraver 
at  that  early  date  who  was  able  to  do  such 
fine  work.  The  plate  is  Jacobean  in  design 
and  usually  sells  at  auction  for  from  $12 
to  $15. 

Darner,   Anne    Seymour.      1749-1828.      Of    Twickenham, 
England. 

A  clever  English  sculptor,  the  prot^g^e 
and  friend  of  Horace  Walpole  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  famous  Strawberry  Hill  Villa 
group.  Mrs.  Darner  executed  several  pieces 
of  sculpture  that  would  entitle  her  to 
remembrance.  Perhaps  her  best  work 
might  be  considered  as  represented  by  the 
busts  of  George  III  and  Nelson  and  by  the 
two  head  pieces  made  for  the  bridge  at 
Henley,  England. 

Her  book-plate  was  designed  by  Agnes 
Berry  and  engraved  by  Legat  in  1793.  It 
represents  a  female  figure  pointing  to  the 
owner's  name,  which  is  engraved  on 
masonry.  The  plate  is  in  two  forms  ;  one 
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with    the   name  "Anna  Darner"  and   the 
other    with    the   name    "Anne    Seymour 
Damer."     Last  public  sale  $S, 
Hart,  Gerald  E.     Of  New  York  City,  New  York. 

The  author  of  "Fall  of  New  France" 
and  other  well-known  works  on  Canadian 
history  has  one  of  the  most  beautiful  plates 
in  the  whole  series  of  American  ex-libris. 
By  a  lamentable  accident  it  is  also  a  very 
rare  one  and  no  longer  a  probable  acquisi- 
tion. The  book-plate  is  a  representation 
of  a  Benedictine  monk  in  the  Scriptorium 
busy  in  the  creation  of  a  priceless  manu- 
script. It  is  a  dainty  mosaic  plate  in  col- 
ored enamels  and  was  made  when  Mr.  Hart 
lived  in  Canada,  by  the  well-known  firm  of 
Messrs.  Edwin  Cox  and  Company,  of  Mon- 
treal. 

It  was  designed  to  be  used  in  Mr.  Hart's 
valuable  books  and  only  a  small  number 
were  ordered.  But  before  more  than  a  few 
impressions  had  been  taken,  one  of  the 
dies,  of  which  there  were  twelve,  broke. 
As  the  die  was  an  expensive  one  to  replace 
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and  as  there  was  no  certainty  that  the  dies 
would  not  again  need  repair,  Mr.  Hart 
abandoned  the  project.  There  are  two 
forms  of  this  plate :  one  heightened  in 
gold,  the  other  in  silver.  Collectors  so 
fortunate  as  to  possess  either  or  both  of 
these  plates  have  not  only  something  that 
can  never  become  common  through  general 
circulation,  but  something  of  real  art 
value. 

Holmes,  Oliver  Wendell.     1809-1894.     Of  Cambridge,  Mas- 
sachusetts. 

The  author  of  "The  Autocrat  of  the 
Breakfast  Table  "  has  a  book-plate  (a  nauti- 
lus shell  beautifully  engraved)  so  charac-' 
teristic  of  himself  and  one  so  delicate  in 
its  references  that  its  history  is  best  told 
in  his  own  words  : 

"If  you  will  look  into  Roget's  'Bridge- 
water  Treatise,'"  said  the  Autocrat  one 
morning,  "you  will  find  a  figure  of  one  of 
these  shells  and  a  section  of  it.  The  last 
will  show  you  the  series  of  enlarging  com- 
partments, successively  dwelt  in  by  the 
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animal  that  inhabits  the  shell,  which  is 
built  in  a  widening  spiral.  Can  you  find 
no  lesson  in  this  ?"  And  from  his  poem, 
"The  Chambered  Nautilus": 

"  Ship  of  pearl,  which,  poets  feign, 

Sails  the  unshadowed  main, — 

The  venturous  bark  that  flings, 
On  the  sweet  summer  wind,  its  purple  wings 
In  gulf  enchanted,  where  the  Siren  sings. 

And  coral  reefs  lie  bare, 
Where  the  cold  sea-maids  rise  to  sun  their  streaming 

hair. 
"  Build  thee  more  stately  mansions,  O  my  soul. 

As  the  swift  seasons  roll ! 

Leave  thy  low  vaulted  past ! 
Let  each  new  temple,  nobler  than  the  last, 
Shut  thee  from  Heaven,  with  a  dome  more  vast, 

Till  thou  at  length  art  free. 
Leaving  thine  outgrown  shell  by  life's  unresting  sea!" 

This  plate   was  partly  engraved  by  J. 
Winfred  Spenceley  in  1885,  when  he  was 
in  the  employ  of  Messrs.  John  A.  Lowell 
and  Company. 
Hugo,  Victor.     1802-1885.     Of  Paris,  Prance. 

The  well-known  author  of  "  Les  Misera- 
bles."     In  1848  his  political  enthusiasm 
led    him    to    found    a   newspaper    called 
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"L'!Ev6nement."  After  the  Revolution  of 
the  same  year  he  was  exiled  from  France. 
At  first  he  went  to  Belgium,  then  to  Jersey, 
and  finally  to  Guernsey,  where  he  remained 
until  he  was  permitted  to  return  to  his  own 
country.  In  1876  he  was  made  a  life 
member  of  the  Senate. 

The  book-plate  of  Victor  Hugo  repre- 
sents the  two  towers  of  Notre  Dame  formed 
into  the  initial  "H",  while  across  the  illus- 
tration are  the  letters  "U.  G.  O.  "  ;  a  flash 
of  lightning  lights  up  the  whole  and  car- 
ries the  full  name,  "Victor  Hugo."  This 
book-plate  was  a  present  to  him  from  the 
French  artist,  Aglafts  Bouvenne,  who 
designed  it  for  him  while  he  was  in  exile 
and  living  at  Guernsey.  His  use  of  the 
towers  of  Notre  Dame  was  a  clever  ref- 
erence to  the  author's  celebrated  novel, 
as  the  chief  scene  of  its  plot.  Victor  Hugo 
never  had  much  of  a  library  ;  the  total 
number  at  the  time  of  his  death  being  only 
about  50  volumes.  Indeed,  there  is  much 
reason  to  believe  that  he  really  never  used 
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his  book-plate  in  the  ordinary  way  at  all,  as 
they  have  never  been  found  in  his  books. 
At  his  death  the  copperplate  was  given  to 
the  artist  who  made  it,  and  is  now  in  his 
possession. 

Matthews,     James     Brander.     1852-     Of    New  York  City, 

New  York. 

The  book-plate  of  Professor  Matthews 
was  d'esigned  for  him  by  Edwin  A.  Abbey. 
It  recognizes,  with  delicate  suggestion,  the 
personality  of  the  author  of  "Theatres  of 
Paris"  and  "French  Dramatists  of  the 
Nineteenth  Century."  The  design  rep- 
resents a  primitive  American  examining  a 
Greek  comic  play  mask  that  he  has  found. 
The  motto,  taken  from  Moli^re,  seems  to 
question  him  thus  :  "What  think  you  of 
this  comedy?" 

MQhIenberg,    Heinrich    Melchoir.      1711-1787.    Of  Trappe, 

Pennsylvania. 

American  author  and  Chief  Founder  of 

the  Lutheran  Church  in  the  United  States. 

The  plate  of  this  gentleman  is   Armorial 

and  is  valued  on  account  of  the  personality 

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of  its  owner.     It  is  a  plate  seldom  seen  in 

collections. 

Mflnchhausen,  Karl  Friedrich  Hieronymus,  Baron  von.  (Some- 
times spelled  Munchausen.)  1720-1797.  Of  Han- 
over, Germany. 

Baron  Mtlnchhansen  was  a  German  sol- 
dier in  the  Russian  service  against  the 
Turks.  A  collection  of  stories  ascribed  to 
him  was  written  by  R.  E.  Raspe,  1735, 
called  "Baron  Munchausen's  Narrative  of 
his  Marvelous  Travels  and  Campaigns  in 
Russia."  Thus  his  name  became  prover- 
bially associated  with  stories  of  absurd 
exaggeration.  The  ex-libris  belonging  to 
this  gentleman  is  Armorial  and  of  exceed- 
ingly fine  workmanship.  Few  specimens 
in  the  author's  collection  are  more  prized 
than  is  this  one. 
Picard,  Abel.     Of  Paris,  France. 

Another  interesting  and  beautiful  plate  is 
that  of  the  famous  bibliophile,  Abel  Picard. 
It  represents  an  initial  "  P "  made  from  a 
careful  folding  of  a  narrow  ribbon.  In  the 
loop  of  the  "P"  is  a  most  charming  view 
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of  the  book-quays  of  Paris,  bo  closely  con- 
nected in  the  minds  of  all  book-lovers  with 
both  books  and  book-plates  ;  in  the  far  dis- 
tance are  seen  the  towers  of  Notre  Dame. 
There  is  also  a  hint  of  the  owner's  favorite 
literary  taste  in  the  row  of  books  on  the 
shelf  at  the  lower  part  of  the  plate,  for  here 
we  see  the  works  of  Zola,  Daudet,  and  the 
historian  Michelet. 
Rhodes,  Cecil  John.     1853-1902.     Of  English  birth. 

The  famous  South  African  statesman 
Cecil  John  Rhodes  had  a  rare  and  seldom 
seen  book-plate.  It  was  designed  for  him 
by  Robert  Anning  Bell  in  1895,  and  rep- 
resents the  discovery  of  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope.  A  Dutch  officer,  with  some  com- 
panions in  arms,  is  trying  to  explain  to  the 
Hottentots  why  they  have  come.  At  first 
sight  the  plate  appears  to  be  nameless,  but 
a  closer  inspection  reveals  the  initials  "C. 
J.  R.  "  intertwined  into  a  monogram  in  the 
lower  part  of  the  plate.  No  records  can 
be  found  to  show  that  this  plate  has  ever 
been  sold.  There  are  only  a  few  at  best, 
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as  Mr.  Rhodes  was  not  a  collector  and  only 

gave  his  plate  in  rare  instances. 

Stafil-Hoistein,  Anne  Louise  Germaine  Necker,  Baronne  de. 
(Commonly  called  Madame  de  StaSI.)  1766-1817. 
Of    Paris,  France. 

This  famous  author  used  a  beautiful  little 
plate  engraved  with  the  marking  "  Biblio- 
th^que  de  Coppet."  During  her  girlhood 
she  was  permitted  to  associate  with  the 
literary  celebrities  who  found  the  house  of 
her  father,  "The  Switzer  Jacques  Necker," 
a  favorite  meeting  place.  She  was  mar- 
ried in  1786  to  a  Swedish  Protestant,  Eric 
Magnus  Stael-Holstein,  who  died  in  1802. 
During  the  Reign  of  Terror '  the  family 
fled  to  her  father's  castle  Coppet  at  Lake 
Geneva,  Switzerland.  Here  her  library,  a 
large  and  well-selected  collection  of  books, 
was  brought  and  it  was  for  them  that  the 
well-known  ex-libris  was  made. 
Stowe,  Calvin  Ellis.     1802-1886.  Of  Hartford,  Connectiont. 

Professor  Stowe  used  for  the  ownership- 
marking  of  his  fine  library  a  plain  Armor- 
ial plate.    This  derives  its  interest  from  its 
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owner,  as  it  has  little  in  itself.  He  was 
professor  in  Dartmouth  and  Bowdoin  Col- 
leges and  in  Lane  and  Andover  Theologi- 
cal Seminaries,  the  author  of  many  learned 
treatises,  but  best  known,  after  all,  as  the 
husband  of  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe. 

Walpoie,  Horace,  Fourth  Earl  of  Orford.         1717-1797.   Of 

Twickenham,  England. 

Horace  Walpole  has  three  claims  to  be 
remembered  by  the  generations  that  fol- 
low him  :  as  a  tireless  and  expert  collector 
of  curios  ;  as  a  letter- writer  at  a  period 
when  letter- writing  was  an  art  ;  and  as 
the  proprietor  of  one  of  the  most  inter- 
esting private  presses  from  which  privately 
printed  books  have  ever  issued.  When  he 
first  came  to  live  at  Twickenham,  the  villa 
he  had  purchased  from  Mrs.  Chevenix,  the 
noted  toy-seller,  was  called  "Chopped 
Straw  Hall.  "  Naturally  he  disliked  this 
too  much  to  adopt  it,  so  at  first  he  dated 
all  of  his  correspondence  simply  "Twick- 
enham." One  day  he  happened  to  find 
among  his  documents  some  old  leases  with 
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the  bewitching  name  of  "Strawberry  Hill," 
and  from  that  day  he  called  his  home 
"Strawberry  Hill  Villa."  The  exterior  of 
this  dwelling-place  after  he  had  restored  it 
did  not  suit  all  of  his  friends,  but  it  suited 
perfectly  its  owner,  and  into  it,  as  the  years 
passed,  he  poured  his  treasures  of  all 
kinds.  But  his  memory  will  ever  be  most 
honored  by  book-lovers  on  account  of  the 
charming  publications  that  were  the  issues 
of  his  private  press.  There  were  in  all  21 
of  these  :  the  most  notable  among  which 
were  "M^moires  du  Comte  de  Grammont," 
1772,  a  quarto  volume  of  317  pages  and 
containing  the  famous  reproductions  of 
the  portraits  of  the  Comte  and  Comtesse 
over  which  the  celebrated  correspondence 
occurred  ;  "Catalogue  of  Royal  and  Noble 
Authors";  and  Lucan's  "Pharsalia." 

The  books  in  his  library  were  marked 
with  two  plates,  one  a  small  Armorial, 
1750,  and  the  other  a  Seal  plate,  1791, 
made  after  he  became  Earl  of  Orford. 
The  vignette  used  on  the  publications  of 
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OONOEENING    BOOK-PLATES 


Strawberry  Hill  Press  has  been  considered 
a  third  book-plate  by  such  undoubted 
authorities  as  Mr.  Castle  and  Mr.  Hardy, 
but  in  the  columns  of  the  Ex  Libris  Jour- 
nal, H.  B.  Wheatley  very  conclusively 
points  out  that  since  these  plates  were 
never  used  except  on  the  Strawberry  Hill 
Press  publications  they  were  reproduc- 
tions of  the  press-mark  and  not  book-plates 
in  the  proper  meaning. 

His  library  at  the  time  of  his  death 
numbered  15,000  volumes  and  was  sold  by 
the  famous  auctioneer,  George  Robins, 
"the  Alexandre  Dumas  of  the  salesroom," 
for  $25,000;  a  very  low  figure,  considering 
the  prices  the  same  books  would  bring  if 
sold  to-day.  The  books  jostled  each  other 
on  the  shelves  with  little  or  no  regard  for 
the  aristocracy  of  the  book- world  and  with- 
out any  apparent  order  or  system  of 
arrangement. 

At  the  last  recorded  sale,  1902,  the  three 
plates,  sold  as  one  lot,  brought  $20. 
Washington,  George.    1732-1799.    Of  Monnt  Vernon,  Vir- 

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ginia. 

The  first  President  of  the  United  States 
set  us  all  a  good  example  by  having  for 
his  books  the  proper  thing,  an  engraved 
plate.  This  book-plate  is  of  more  than 
common  interest  to  us  all,  whether  we  are 
collectors  of  plates,  users  of  plates,  or  with- 
out any  apparent  connection  with  the  sub- 
ject, for  it  was  the  Washington  crest  that 
gave  us  our  national  shield  and  suggested 
our  flag.  It  has  marked  the  books  of  the 
Washington  family  for  four  generations. 
This  plate  was  probably  of  American  work- 
manship, for  the  heraldry  is  such  as  no 
foreign  engraver,  used  to  armorial  bear- 
ings, would  have  been  guilty  of  executing. 

There  are  two  forms  of  this  plate.  The 
original,  genuine,  1775  ;  and  a  forgery, 
1865.  Both  are  sought  by  collectors  and 
neither  plate  is  very  rare.  Washington's 
library  contained  the  usual  editions  and 
titles  one  would  expect  to  find  in  the  col- 
lection of  a  well-to-do  intelligent  man.  At 
his  death  the  library  was  left  by  will  to 
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his  nephew,  Judge  Bushrod  Washington, 
who  gave  a  few  volumes  to  intimate  friends 
of  the  family  and  at  his  death  also  left  the 
collection  to  his  heirs.  In  this  way  the 
library  became  the  property  of  his  two 
nephews,  George  C.  and  John  A.  Wash- 
ington, from  whom  the  Government  pur- 
chased the  books,  together  with  some  val- 
uable letters  and  papers,  and  gave  them  a 
final  home  in  the  Archives  of  the  State 
Department  at  Washington.  In  1848 
some  of  the  books  from  the  original  Wash- 
ington library  were  offered  for  sale  by 
Henry  Stevens,  of  Vermont.  Several  for- 
eign libraries  began  negotiations  for  the 
books  and  in  order  to  prevent  their  removal 
from  the  United  States  a  committee  of 
Bostonians  raised  the  funds  for  their  pur- 
chase. A  few  books  went  to  the  British 
Museum,  to  the  Bodleian  Library,  and  to 
the  Koyal  Library  at  Berlin,  but  the 
greater  part  of  the  collection,  namely,  444 
volumes  and  240  pamphlets,  some  of  them 
bearing  the  Washington  book-plate  and 
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some  his  autograph  as  well,  found  a  safe 
and  permanent  resting-place  in  the  Boston 
Athenaeum.     Book-lovers  as  well  as  loyal 
Americans  treasure  in  grateful  memory  the 
Boston  Committee  and  its  timely  energy 
and  patriotism. 
Many  other  plates  belonging  to  both  insti- 
tutions and  to  individuals  might  be  mentioned 
did  the  limits  of  this  book  permit.     Here  are  a 
few  persons  whose  plates  are  to  be  found  in 
some    general    collections :    Thomas     Carlyle, 
Anthony    Trollope,     Samuel     Pepys,    Charles 
Kingsley,  David    Garrick,   Edward  Fitzgerald 
(designed  by  William  M.  Thackeray),  William 
E.  Gladstone,   Charles   Dickens,   John  Foster, 
Alfred  Tennyson,  George  Grote,  Thomas  Frog- 
nail  Dibdin,  Austin    Dobson,  Walter    Besant, 
Charlotte  Corday  and  Charlotte  Cushman,  Paul 
Lacroix,    L^on    Gambetta,    John    Fiske,    Paul 
Revere,  Josiah  Quincy,  Edward  Everett,  Edwin 
Booth,  Lulu  Glaser,  and  Henry  Irving. 


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CHAPTER  III 


SOME  FAMOUS  BOOK-PLATE    ARTISTS  OF    THE  PAST 

"I've  Hurds  in  profusion  and  Mavericks,  too, 

With  Sparrows  and  birds  of  all  kind  ; 
A  queer  little  label  of  Doctrine  Monroe, 

And  a  Gospel  ship  sailing  the  wind. 
I've  Simon  of  Lancaster — not  John  of  Gaunt ; 

I've  torn  ones  bedewed  by  a  tear  ; 
O'er  but  one  of  all  these,  do  I  have  a  hornpipe — 

My  book-plate  that's  signed  Paul  Revere.'''' 

W.  H.  Shir-Cliff. 

It  must  be  admitted  that  to  know  with  any 
completeness  the  book-plate  artists  of  the  past 
is  an  exceedingly  difficult  task.  Many  plates 
were  designed  and  engraved  by  artists  who 
were  comparatively  little  known  and  of  whom 
few  records  have  been  kept.  Encyclopedias 
and  biographical  dictionaries  have  nothing  to 
tell  concerning  them.  If  the  plates  they  made 
had  not  been  dated  and  signed,  we  also  should 
be  ignorant  of  their  names  and  without  incen- 
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UNIVERSITY 


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ARTISTS   OF    THE    PAST 


tive  to  have  any  interest  whatever  in  them. 
Many  of  them  worked  for  stationers  in  small 
villages  and  provincial  towns.  Any  items  in 
regard  to  them  must  be  gleaned  by  personal 
visits  to  those  localities  that  were  the  scenes  of 
their  labors. 

In  the  following  list  no  attempt  has  been 
made  to  itemize  under  each  artist  the  plates 
made.  Such  tabulations  have  been  so  ejfficiently 
executed  by  such  unquestioned  authorities  as 
Poulet-Malassis,  Warren,  Hamilton,  Castle, 
Fincham,  Gerster,  Bertarelli,  Prior,  Warnecke, 
Leiningen-Westerburg,  and  Verster,  as  to  make 
any  repetition  of  them  entirely  unnecessary. 

For  greater  facility  in  the  identification  of 
plates  artists  of  different  nationalities  have  been 
arranged  in  one  simple  alphabet  as  follows  : 
Allardlce,  8.     ?     ?     Of     Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

This  artist  was  born  in  Scotland,  but 
came  to  America  as  a  young  man.  He 
learned  his  trade  as  an  engraver  by  being 
apprenticed  to  Robert  Scott,  the  die-sinker 
of  the  Mint.  Only  one  signed  plate  is 
known  positively  as  the  work  of  this  artist, 
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namely,  the  plate  made   for  the   Library 
Company  of  Baltimore,  dated  1790. 
Amman,  Jost.     1539-1591.     Of  Zurich,  Switzerland. 

A  noted  Swiss  painter  and  etcher  of 
book-plates.  He  engraved  on  both  wood 
and  copper,  but  his  woodcuts,  as  a  rule, 
are  far  superior  to  the  copperplates  made 
by  him.  He  has  left  many  specimens  of 
his  work  to  testify  to  his  skill  and  industry. 

Anderson,  Alexander.     1775-1870.   Of  New  York  City,  New 
York. 

A  well-known  American  artist,  famous 
not  only  as  an  engraver  and  a  designer, 
but  because  he  was  the  first  American 
wood-engraver.  Beginning  his  career  as 
an  engraver  at  the  tender  age  of  twelve 
years,  he  made  his  first  tools  out  of  the 
spring  of  an  old  jack-knife,  and  used  as  a 
plate  some  pennies  rolled  thin,  that  had 
been  given  him  to  use  in  the  purchase  of 
a  new  one.  This  curious  first  plate  was  an 
engraving  of  the  head  of  Paul  Jones.  It 
was  printed  with  red  paint  on  a  press  of 
his  own  devising.  After  this  he  spent  his 
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leisure  time  trying  to  understand  the  pro- 
cesses by  which  pictures  were  made  and 
endeavoring  to  imitate  them.  Finding 
him  one  day  making  some  excellent  copies 
of  some  plates  in  a  medical  book,  his  father 
decided  that  he  had  a  strong  taste  for 
medicine  and  straightway  placed  him  under 
the  care  of  Doctor  Joseph  Young.  His 
medical  education  lasted  until  he  had 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from 
the  medical  department  of  Columbia  Col- 
lege in  1796.  In  1798,  after  two  years  of 
trying  to  adapt  himself  to  a  profession  he 
did  not  love,  he  gave  himself  up  to  en- 
graving, which  had  from  childhood  held 
for  him  such  a  fascination.  A  copy  of 
Bewick's  "Quadrupeds"  and  later  his 
"British  Birds"  opened  for  him  the  world 
of  engraving  and  taught  him  how  to  use 
the  white  line,  that  Bewick  was  making  so 
effective.  He  followed  so  closely  the 
methods  of  expression  used  in  the  plates 
of  this  great  master  that  he  earfted  for  him- 
self the  name  of  the  "American  Bewick." 
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His  plates  are  engraved  both  on  wood 
and  on  copper.  To  the  general  public 
he  is  best  known  as  the  engraver  who 
illustrated  the  Webster  spelling-book  of 
long  ago,  made  the  beautiful  pictures  for 
the  early  illustrated  edition  of  Shake- 
speare, and  for  many  years  illustrated  the 
publications  of  the  American  Tract  Society. 

Baldung,  Hans.  1476?- 1545.  (Called  "Grtin"  because  of 
the  abundance  of  that  color  in  his  pictures.)  Of 
Strasburg,  Germany. 

An  early  German  engraver. 

Bartolozzi,    Francesco.      1725-1815.     Of  Florence,    Italy; 
London,  England;  and  Lisbon,  Portugal. 

One  of  the  greatest  of  Italian  engravers. 
He  spent  six  years  of  preparatory  study  in 
Venice  under  the  famous  Wagner.  In 
1764  he  went  to  London,  where  he  made  a 
great  success  of  his  work,  being  appointed 
Engraver  to  the  King,  and  in  1769  was 
made  a  member  of  the  Royal  Academy. 
In  1802  he  went  to  Lisbon,  to  take  up  his 
residence  there  as  head  of  the  National 
Academy. 

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While  he  made  book-plates,  he  did  not 
make  many,  and  there  are  only  a  few  to  be 
found  to-day,  nine  plates  bearing  his  sig- 
nature being  known  to  collectors.  Book- 
plates were  not  the  medium  through  which 
his  best  work  could  be  done,  being  too 
small  and  affording  too  narrow  a  scope  for 
the  groups  of  angels,  muses,  and  goddesses 
which  he  delighted  to  depict.  His  work 
was  always  allegorical  and  much  involved. 

Bewick,  Thomas.  1753-1828.  Called  "Father  of  modern 
wood-engraving."  Of  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  Eng- 
land. 

He  passed  his  boyhood  amidst  country 
surroundings,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
was  apprenticed  to  Ralph  Beilby,  to  be 
taught  engraving.  At  the  completion  of 
his  term  of  apprenticeship,  he  went  to 
London  and  opened  a  shop  for  himself  ; 
but  city  life  was  hateful  to  him  and  in  less 
than  a  year  he  returned  to  Newcastle  'to 
accept  a  partnership  with  his  old  master. 

His  claim  to  the  Fatherhood  of  the  art 
is  based  on  his  introduction  of  the  white 
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line  method,  the  change  from  soft  woods  to 
boxwood,  the  better  effects  gained  by 
engraving  across  the  grain  of  the  wood, 
instead  of  with  it,  as  the  old  engravers  had 
done,  and  the  introduction  of  the  practice 
of  lowering  the  surface  of  the  block  in 
places  where  less  color  was  desired,  so  that 
less  pressure  would  come  on  that  part  of 
the  engraving.  He  was  associated  with 
his  brother  John,  who  formed  a  school  of 
wood-engravers. 

Boucher,  Frangois.     1703-1770.     Of  Paris,  France. 

A  rioted  French   painter,  whose  special 

L  ability  lay  in  the  power  to  develop  the 
decorative  possibilities  of  groups  of  merry 
children  and  beautiful  women.  He  fre- 
quently used  the  human  figure  in  the 
nude.  His  plates  are  few  and  hard  to 
identify. 

Bowen,  Abel.     1790-1850.     Of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

This  artist  was  the  first  Boston  engraver. 

He  worked  with  his  uncle  in  the  printing 

business     and    there    received    his   early 

training    as    an    engraver.     In    1834  he 

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founded  the  "Boston  Bewick  Company" 
and  made  it  one  of  the  earliest  associations 
of  engravers.  Among  the  engravings 
emanating  from  this  company  is  an  early 
map  of  Boston.  He  signed  one  of  the 
plates  of  Harvard  College,  1820,  which  is 
the  only  plate  signed  by  him  yet  identified. 

Burgkmair,  Hans.  1473-1531.  Of  Angsburg,  Germany. 
An  early  engraver  of  wood,  who  was  a 
pupil  of  the  famous  Albrecht  Diirer.  He 
is  best  known,  in  art  circles,  by  his  cele- 
brated work  the  "Triumphal  Procession  of 
Maximilian  I." 

BDrkner,    Hugo.     ?      ?      Of   Berlin,   Germany. 

This  artist  has  the  honor  of  being  known 
as  the  reviver  of  the  use  of  woodcuts  as 
illustrations  for  books.  Little  is  recorded 
of  him  beyond  the  fact  that  he  is  repre- 
sented by  many  excellent  plates,  some  of 
which  were  book-plates,  and  that  he  is 
considered  one  of  the  best  engravers  of  his 
day. 
Cailend«r,  Joseph.    1751-1821.   Of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

A    noted   American    engraver  and  die- 
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sinker,  who  made  most  of  the  plates  for 
the  second  Massachusetts  Mint.  He  was 
considered  the  greatest  specialist  of  Armor- 
ial designs  of  his  day.  Of  the  book-plates 
made  by  him  twenty -two  are  signed. 

Childs,   Cephas  G.    1793-1871.     Of  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

The  engraver  of  the  well-known  Henry 
D.  Gilpin  plate.  A  set  of  fine  views  of 
Philadelphia  were  also  engraved  by  him 
in  the  years  1827-1830.  Four  plates  bear- 
ing his  signature  are  known  to  collectors. 

Collin,  Dominique.    1725-1781.   (Sometimes  spelled  Colin.) 
Of  Nancy,  France. 

A  French   engraver,  studying    under  a 

goldsmith  at  Metz,  and  afterwards  under 

Jean  Striedbeck  of  Strasburg.     In  1752 

he   was   made    Engraver    to  the    town  of 

Nancy    and  to  His  Majesty,  the    King  of 

Poland,  Stanislaus,  Due  de  Lorraine  et  de 

Bar.     He  produced  more  than  a  hundred 

beautiful  engravings,   on  many  of  which 

he    signed    himself  graveur  du  feu    rot 

de   Pologne,     His   son,  Yves  Dominique 

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Collin,  also  made  book-plates,  with  a  skill 

and  daintiness  equal  to  his  father's.     He 

died  while    yet   a   young   man.     Had  he 

lived  out  his  days,  he  would  probably  have 

even  surpassed  him.     He  signed  his  plates 

F.  D.  Collin,  fils. 

Cranach,  Lucas.     1515-1 586.     Of  Wittenberg  and  Weimar, 
Germany. 

This  is  the  son  of  the  well-known  artist, 
Lucas  Cranach  "  the  Elder."  Lucas  Cra- 
nach  "the  Younger"  was  the  creator  of 
the  famous  series  of  early  German  book- 
plates made  for  Ulrick,  Duke  of  Mecklen- 
burgh,  all  Armorial  and  bearing  the  dates 
1559,  1573,  and  1579. 

Daulceur,  Louise  de   Montigny,  Madame  la.     17- -7- 17- -7. 

Of  Paris,  France. 

This  renowned  artist  began  her  art  work 
as  an  apprentice  pupil  of  the  famous 
Bouchardon  and  many  of  the  book-plates 
made  by  her  are  reproductions  and  varia- 
tions of  patterns  in  use  in  his  well-known 
work.  She  also  used  in  the  same  way 
designs  made  by  Charles  Eisen.  In  addi- 
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tion  to  her  work  on  ex-libris,  she  illustrated 
several  books  of  poems  that  were  the  liter- 
ary productions  of  her  own  personal  friends. 
As  an  artist  she  had  a  variety  of  ways  of 
signing  the  really  beautiful  little  plates 
bearing  her  name.  The  signatures  are 
rather  hard  to  remember  and  her  plates 
quite  puzzling  in  their  identification,  until 
a  collector  has  once  mastered  the  forms  of 
signature.  Among  the  plates  made  by 
her  that  are  in  the  author's  collection  are 
those  bearing  the  following  forms  of  sig- 
nature :  Louise  Daul. ;  Le  D. ;  Louise 
LeD.j  Louise  Le  D.  sculp.;  L.  Daul. 
sculp.  ;  Madame  Le  D.  ;  Daul.  sculp.  ; 
and  Louise  Le  Daulceur. 

She  made  for  herself  two  ex-libris  ;  one 
designed  by  E.  Bouchardon  and  the  other 
by  herself. 

Dawkins,  Henry.      Flourished    1750-1780.      Of  New  York 
City,  New  York,  and  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

He  was  an  Englishman  by  birth,  but 
from  long  residence  in  New  York  City  is 
counted  among  the  early  American  artists. 
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One  of  his  earliest  plates  is  that  of  John 
Burnet,  of  New  York,  signed  in  full  and 
dated  1754.  He  went  to  Philadelphia 
from  New  York  and  made  plates  for  fami- 
lies there.  There  is  a  story  to  the  effect 
that  he  was  arrested  in  1776  for  counter- 
feiting and  sentenced  to  be  confined  for 
life,  but  petitioned  to  be  hung  instead. 
He  was  finally  pardoned.  His  favorite 
style  was  Chippendale,  in  which  he  copied 
many  of  the  celebrated  English  plates  for 
his  American  customers. 

Dearborn,  Nathaniel.     1768-  ?.     Of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

He  was  an  early  Boston  engraver  and 

an  associate  with  Abel  Bowen.     Only  two 

plates  bearing  his  signature  are  known  to 

collectors. 

Doolittle,  Amos.  1754-1832.  Of  New  Haven,"Connecticut. 
This  artist  was  born  in  Connecticut  and 
was  his  own  art  master.  He  was  famous 
for  an  engraving  of  "  The  Battle  of  Lex- 
ington," made  from  a  drawing  by  an  eye- 
witness of  the  event.  He  was  long  thought 
to  have  been  the  earliest  American 
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engraver  but  is  now  known  to  be  more 
recent  than  the  work  of  both  Alexander 
Anderson  and  Paul  Revere.  The  styles 
of  his  plates  are  Allegories,  and  Ribbon 
and  Wreath.  Eight  specimens  are  known 
to  collectors. 
DOrer,  Aibrecht.  1471-1528.  Called  "Father  of  Book- 
plates."    Of  Nuremberg,  Germany. 

This  great  German  master  was  the  son 
of  a  goldsmith,  who  taught  him  all  he 
knew  about  engraving  and  then  appren- 
ticed him  to  the  painter  Michel  Wolgemuth 
for  three  years,  after  which  he  went  to 
Switzerland  and  to  Italy.  He  worked  for 
Maximilian,  who  made  him  court  painter. 
He  was  the  first  to  discover  in  wood-en- 
graving a  mode  of  artistic  expression. 
He  increased  the  size  of  the  cuts,  gave 
boldness  to  the  lines,  and  created  entirely 
new  effects  from  strong  contrasts  of  black 
and  white. 
Eisen,  Charles.     1721-1778.     Of  Brussels,  Belgium. 

The  work  of  this  artist  has  formed  the 
basis  for  much   work  by  others.     Bishop 
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Choiseul-Beaupr^  had  a  charming  name- 
less plate  signed  Ch.  Eisen  invenit.  The 
Marquis  de  Paulmy  also  had  a  nameless 
plate  signed  Eisen  inv.  It  was  to  this 
gentleman  that  Charles  Eisen  dedicated 
the  work  entitled  "Oeuvre  Suivie  Conte- 
nant  Diff^rents  Sujets  de  Decorations  et 
d'Ornements,"  etc.  This  was  illustrated 
with  so  many  heraldic  designs,  cartouches, 
and  decorative  garlands  that  the  work 
became  a  "widow's  cruse  of  oil"  to  the 
engravers  of  the  time,  who  freely  borrowed 
many  of  the  designs  for  the  ex-libris  they 
made. 

Fairman,  Gideon.    1774-     1    Of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylva- 
nia. 

A  native  of  Connecticut,  but  spending 
much   of  his  life    in     Philadelphia,    as  a 
member  of  the  tirm  of  Messrs.  Murray  and 
Draper.     Only  two  plates  bearing  his  sig- 
nature are  known  to  collectors. 
Falthorne,   William.     1616-1691.     Of  London,   England. 
An  early  English  engraver,  who  is  best 
known  as  the  artist  who  signed  his  name 
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to    the  portrait  plate   of  Bishop  Hacket, 

dated   1670.     This  is  the  second  earliest 

signed    plate    of    English    workmanship. 

Three  other   plates,    all    anonymous,    are 

credited  to  this  artirt. 

Gavarni.    1801-1866.    (Pseudonym  of  Sulpice  Paul  Cheva- 
lier.)    Of  Paris,  France. 

A  celebrated  caricaturist,  who  is  credited 
with  the  well-known  ex-libris  of  the  authors 
Edmond  and  Jules  de  Goncourt.  The 
design  is  exceedingly  simple,  representing 
a  part  of  the  arm  and  two  fingers  of  a  left 
hand  pointing  to  the  letters  "E.  J."  traced 
on  a  sheet  of  paper.  This  plate  is  inter- 
esting because  it  was  engraved  by  Jules  de 
Goncourt  himself.  It  has  become  still 
more  interesting  from  the  fact  that  Adam 
Van  Allen,  of  Albany,  New  York,  has  used 
it  as  the  model  for  his  own  personal  plate, 
the  modernizing  of  the  hand  and  cuff  being 
the  only  essential  change. 

Goethe,   Johann    Wolfgang.     1749-1832.    Of  Weimar,  Ger- 
many. 

The  famous   poet,  whose  history  is  too 

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UNIVERSf 

ARTISTS    OF    THE    PAST  V     ^        Of 

well-known  to  need  repetition  here,  while 

a  student  at   Leipsic  in   1767  etched  the 

book-plate  for  Kathchen  SchOnkopf.     He 

also  made  a  trade -mark  for  her  father,  who 

was  a  wine  merchant. 

Gribelin,  Simon.     1661-1733.     Of  London,  England. 

A  noted  Frenchman  by  birth,  who  went 

to    England   in    1680    and   spent  his  life 

making    English    and    American    plates. 

Among  his  plates,  as  charming  specimens 

of  his  style,  are  the  plates  he  made  for  Sir 

Philip  Sydenham  in  1699.     He  also  made 

two  very   interesting    plates  in   1720   for 

Doctor  Thomas  Bray  :  one  to  use  in  the 

English  parochial  libraries  and  the  other 

for  the  parochial  libraries  in  America. 

Gucht,  Michael  Vander.     ?    -1725.     Of  Antwerp,  Belgium, 
and  London,  England. 

A  famous  artist  who  went    to  London 
from  Antwerp.     He  is  best  known  as  the 
artist  who  made  the  plate  of  Sir  William 
Fleming,  1716,  signed  vander  Gucht 
Hillemaclier,  Fr6d6ric.     ?  -1886.     Of  Lyons,  France. 

This  famous  artist  is  best  known  as  the 
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illustrator  of  Perrin's  edition  of  Moli^re. 
His  best  examples  of  ex-libris  are  the  plates 
of  Georges   Champion,  Eugene  Piot,  and 
one  made  by  him  for  his  personal  use. 
Hogarth,  William.*     1697-1764.     Of  London,  England. 

At  least  four  book-plates  designed  and 
executed  by  this  great  master  are  in  the 
possession  of  collectors  ;  also  many  busi- 
ness cards  and  cards  of  coats  of  arms. 
Hogarth's  own  plate  by  himself  is  familiar 
to  most  lovers  of  book-plates  from  the  fact 
of  its  having  been  used  as  a  model  for 
plates  of  more  recent  creation.  The  late 
Walter  Hamilton  copied  it  with  slight 
variations  for  his  own  personal  plate,  adding 
the  motto  :  "  Old  friends,  old  books,  old 
wines."  It  was  also  copied  by  H.  Hugh 
Riach  and  by  John  Piggott,  the  last  named 
gentleman  substituting  his  own  crest  and 
arms  for  the  centerpiece  of  the  Hogarth 
plate. 

Other  plates  long  thought  to  have  been 

*  Ex  Libris  Journal,  v.  3,  p.  1. 
Gentleman's  Magazine,  v.  98,  Ft.  2,  p.  198. 

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made  by  Hogarth  and  signed  with  his  ini- 
tials are  now  by  some  authorities  believed 
to  have  been  made  by  William  Hibbart,  of 
Bath,  England,  who  flourished  in  1750, 
but  Henry  Fincham  could  find  no  facts 
sufficient  to  prove  this.  He  says  :  "  The 
artist  to  whom  I  ascribe  the  plates  signed 
W.  H.  is  William  Henshaw." 

Holbein,  Hans.     1497-1543.  Of  London,  England. 

The  great  German  portrait  painter.  He 
was  famous  as  an  artist  because  he  was  so 
universal  as  an  interpreter.  He  was  neither 
German,  nor  Italian,  nor  French  nor  Eng- 
lish in  his  art  school,  but  all  combined. 
He  made  the  original  drawings  for  the 
"Dance  of  Death." 

Hurd,  Nathaniel.  1730-1777.  Of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 
This  engraver  was  not  only  the  first  but 
the  best  early  American  artist.  He  was 
the  son  of  a  goldsmith  and  when  quite  a 
boy  he  was  apprenticed  to  him,  attending 
to  the  orders  for  copper  engraving  as  his 
share  of  the  work.  The  plate  made  by 
him  for  Edward  Augustus  Holyoke,  the 
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famous  centenarian  physician  of  Boston, 
is  probably  among  his  earliest  plates,  made 
when  he  was  still  in  his  teens.  For  the 
Thomas  Deering  plate  which  he  signed  N, 
H.  and  dated  1749  he  uses  this  same 
design,  but  it  shows  the  improvement  in 
its  main  features  resulting  from  "  doing  it 
another  time  and  doing  it  better."  Both 
plates  were  probably  copied  from  some 
English  Chippendales,  as  the  plates  of 
Theodore  Atkinson,  Robert  Hale  of  Bev- 
erly, and  the  Went  worth  plate  all  show 
unmistakable  signs  of  having  been  created 
with  increasing  skilfulness  from  the  same 
general  model. 

All  of  his  early  plates  followed  this 
Chippendale  style,  which  at  the  time  was 
just  being  displaced  in  England  by  the 
Ribbon  and  Wreath.  Later  in  his  career 
he  made  some  Jacobean  plates  that  show 
his  skill  at  its  best.  For  thirty  years  he 
was  the  best  engraver  of  seals  and  dies  in 
America  and  made  book-plates  for  many 
well-known  colonial  families,  as  well  as 
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for  such  early  institutions  as  Harvard,  Col- 
umbia, Dartmouth,  and  others. 

Jungwierth,  Franz  Xaver.     1720-1790.     Of    Manioh,  Ger- 
many. 

A  German  engraver,  best  known  by  the 

plates  of  the  Polling  monastery. 

Le  Clerc,  S€ba$tien.     16--7-17--?     Of  Metz,  Germany, and 
Paris,  France. 

A  famous  engraver.  Two  well-known 
plates  signed  by  him  bear  the  dates  1655- 
1660.  He  was  the  first  engraver  to  depart 
from  the  formal  but  correct  Heraldic  form, 
in  order  to  introduce  the  oval  shield  of 
Italian  artists,  which  finally  developed  into 
the  Louis  XIV  style.  In  1701  he  signed 
S.  Le  Clerc  invenit  to  the  plate  of  Mat- 
thaeus  Franciscus  Geoffroy,  which  design 
was  afterwards  appropriated  by  P.  Picaut, 
(  sometimes  spelled  Picault )  for  Veronneau 
of  Blois. 
Le  Keux,  John  Henry.    1812-1896.    Of  Dnrham,  England* 

A  native  Frenchman  of  Huguenot 
descent,  who  worked  all  his  life  in  Eng- 
land  and   is   therefore   claimed   by  both 

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countries.  His  work  is  of  a  pronounced 
French  type  in  its  execution.  His  best 
work  as  an  artist  was  in  connection  with 
the  engravings  illustrating  the  works  of 
Pugin,  Wright,  and  Ruskin.  Only  four 
plates  have  been  identified  as  his  work. 

Marshall,  William.     Worked  between  1541    and   1646.     Of 
London,  England. 

An  English  engraver,  best  known  as  a 
portrait  painter.  The  Littleton  plate, 
about  1640,  is  the  only  plate  known  to 
collectors,  but  is  a  rare  example,  as  it  is 
the  earliest  signature  yet  found  on  an 
English  plate. 
Maverick,  Peter  Rushton.     1755-1807.     Of  New  York  City, 

New  York. 

An  Englishman  by  birth,  but  coming  to 
America  at  the  age  of  twenty  is  classed  as 
an  American  artist.  He  was  the  son  of  a 
silversmith  and  had  been  apprenticed  to 
his  father  to  learn  the  engraving  trade. 
He  was  one  of  the  most  industrious  and 
prolific  engravers  of  all  those  who  have 
worked  on  American  plates.  The  abun- 
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dant  and  rapid  work  is  explained  by  the 
fact  that  he  used  the  same  features  over 
and  over  again,  copying  many  of  his  best 
designs  until  they  reached  a  point  where 
they  ceased  to  improve,  when  they  lost  his 
interest  and  a  new  design  was  created. 
Nearly  one  hundred  plates  signed  by  this 
artist  are  known. 

His  son  was  also  an  engraver,  but  chiefly 
of  bank-notes,  rather  than  book-plates. 
Mountaine,  R.     ?-     1    Of  Winchester,  England. 

An  early  English  engraver,  of  whom 
little  is  known  beyond  the  fact  that  he  was 
a  prolific  engraver  of  book-plates  about 
1750,  and  has  left  some  beautiful  examples 
of  this  work  to  which  he  signed  his  initials 
or  his  name,  among  which  is  one  made  for 
himself,  and  signed  B.  M.  These  signa- 
tures were  usually  so  curiously  hidden  by 
the  decoration  of  the  escutcheon  as  to  be 
quite  puzzling  to  decipher.  About  seventy 
plates  made  by  him  have  been  identified, 
all  bearing  dates  within  the  years  1750- 
1760. 

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Petrarca,  Josef.     ?-     ?     Of  Milan,  Italy. 

Best  known  as  the  engraver  of  the  very- 
large  ex-libris  of  Count  Breiner,  about 
1700.  The  size  of  this  plate  is  9|  by 
13 J  inches  and  when  a  book  was  too 
small  to  use  it  in  its  present  form  it  was 
reduced  by  cutting  down  the  outer  frame- 
work. 

Revere,  Paul.     1735-1818.     Of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

The  second  native  American  engraver. 
He  also  was  an  apprentice  in  early  life  to 
a  goldsmith,  where  he  learned  to  engrave 
on  copper.  His  chief  work  as  an  artist  was 
to  design,  engrave,  and  print  the  paper 
money  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massa- 
chusetts (1775).  He  not  only  did  this 
work,  but  also,  like  other  pioneers  in  new 
lines,  made  with  his  own  hands  the  tools 
with  which  he  worked,  even  to  the  primi- 
tive press  on  which  the  designs  were 
printed.  He  is  best  known  as  an  Ameri- 
can patriot,  the  hero  of  Longfellow's  poem. 
Collectors  greatly  prize  the  book-plates 
designed  and  engraved  by  him.  Only 
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four  have  been  identified. 
Rollinson,  Wiliiam.     1760-18--1     Of  New  York  City,  New 
York. 

He  was  an  expert  button  maker  and 
learned  to  do  engraving  by  his  apprentice 
work  in  fashioning  brass  buttons.  It  is 
said  that  the  buttons  that  adorned  the 
inaugural  coat  of  President  Washington 
were  of  his  ornamentation.  He  was  also  a 
painter  of  portraits  and  invented  a  machine 
for  making  the  irregular  lines  used  in  bank- 
note paper.  He  is  known  to  have  been 
still  at  work  in  1834.  Only  an  even  dozen 
of  plates  signed  by  him  are  known  to  col- 
lectors. 
Roy,  Claude.     1712-1792.     Of  Paris,  France. 

His  early  work  was  as  an  engraver  of 
portraits.  During  middle  life  he  lost  his 
eyesight  through  overwork,  but  it  was 
finally  restored  to  him  in  his  later  life. 
His  work  included  many  very  beautiful 
ex-libris,  greatly  prized  by  collectors. 
One  of  the  most  charming  plates  by  this 
artist  in  the  author's  collection  is  a  nameless 
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plate,  bearing  the  arms  of  Henri-Anne  de 
Fuligny  Damas,  Comte  de  Rocheouart, 
etc.,  and  those  of  his  wife,  Marie  Gabrielle 
de  Pons.  As  Comte  de  Rocheouart  died  in 
1745,  the  plate  must  have  been  made 
before  that  time.  It  is  a  Musical  plate  and 
is  signed  CI.  Roy  D.  et  Sc. 

Scotin,  Gerard.     1643-1715.     Of  Paris,  France. 

An  early  French  artist,  working  largely 
with  Armorial  plates.  Only  a  few  exam- 
ples are  known  to  collectors  and  these  are 
very  rare. 

Skinner,  J.     ?-     ?     Of  Bath,  England. 

Early  English  engraver.  Had  various 
signatures  for  the  plates  he  made,  such  as 
J. ;  S. ;  J.  S.  Bath. ;  J.  Skinner  Bath. ; 
J.  Skin "".  Bath. ;  but  his  plates,  all  in  the 
Chippendale  style,  are  so  similar  in  execu- 
tion as  to  be  in  the  nature  of  a  signature 
themselves.  Thirty-one  signed  plates  are 
known  to  collectors. 

Soils,  Virgil.     1514-1 562.     Of  Nuremberg,  Germany. 

A  very  productive  designer,  whose  work 
is    best   known   in    connection   with   the 
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illustration  of  books. 

Sparrow,  T.     Flourished  from  1750-1780.     Of  Annapolis, 
Maryland. 

An  obscure  engraver  on  wood.  His  sig- 
nature was  T.  Sparrow  and  is  found  on 
only  three  plates  known  to  collectors. 

Steinberger,  Leonhard  Michael.    ?-     ?    Of  Augsburg,  Ger- 
many. 

Famous  German  engraver  of  Allegorical 
plates.  Best  known  plate  is  one  made 
about  1760,  representing  a  sermon  being 
delivered  in  the  churchyard  of  the  Evan- 
gelical College  of  Augsburg. 
Turner,  James.  Worked  as  early  as  1715  and  was  in  Phila- 
delphia in  1 730.     Of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

An  early  American  engraver  who  began 
his  work  in  Boston  and  moved  to  Philadel- 
phia in  1730,  where  most  of  his  best  work 
was  accomplished.  Little  is  known  of  him 
beyond  the  four  plates  bearing  his  signa- 
ture. 
Vertue,  George.     1684-1756.     Of  London,  England. 

A  noted  English  engraver,  who  learned 
the  art  from  Michael  Vander  Gucht.     In 
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1717  he  was  appointed  Engraver  to  the 
Society  of  Antiquaries.  Horace  Walpole 
in  his  "Catalogue of  Engravers"  describes 
Vertue's  plate  for  the  Countess  of  Oxford 
and  Mortimer.  Six  plates  signed  by  this 
artist  are  known  to  collectors.  He  is  con- 
sidered one  of  the  most  important  of  the 
engravers  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
White,  J^obert.     1 645  - 1 704.     Of  London,  England. 

An  early  English  engraver  of  book- 
plates. He  was  a  pupil  of  David  Loggar. 
His  work  is  best  known  by  two  plates 
made  for  Samuel  Pepys,  signed  and  dated 
1690. 


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SOME  MODERN   ARTISTS   WHO   MAKE   BOOK-PLATES 


"How  shall  I  honour  the  books  that  are  mine, — 

That  are  dear  to  me  as  faithful  friends, 
Waiting  my  will  through  storm  and  shine. 

And  ever  ready  to  serve  my  ends  ? 
Bring  me  a  label  of  rare  design, 

Wrought  with  care  by  a  master's  hand, — 
Grace  and  skill  in  its  everj^  line, 

Daintily  fashioned,  deftly  planned." 

Constance  Jelf-Sharp. 

It  is  a  much  more  difficult  task  to  lay  before 
the  reader  a  helpful  practical  list  of  the  modern 
artists  who  make  the  book-plates  of  the  present 
time  than  to  record  the  illustrious  names  of  the 
past.  The  artists  who  make  book-plates  to-day 
are  legion.  Almost  every  graduate  of  a  well- 
known  art  school,  has,  in  the  course  of  instruc- 
tion, tried  the  field  of  ex-libris.  Many  of  these 
plates  are  too  poor  in  drawing  and  too  fantastic 
in  design  to  prophesy  for  their  creators  either 
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a  long  or  brilliant  career  in  this  department  of 
art. 

The  personality  of  the  individual  finds 
itself  expressed  more  acceptably  through  the 
work  of  one  artist  than  through  that  of  another 
artist,  whose  work  though  of  equal  value  from 
an  artistic  standpoint  is  not  so  well  adapted  to 
the  style  of  design  desired. 

To  express  approval  even  of  only  the  really 
good  artists  would  be  to  prepare  a  book,  not  a 
chapter.  The  true  lover  of  art  can  be  quite 
catholic  in  the  appreciation  of  the  fine  points  to 
be  found  in  all  high  grade  work.  To  give  voice 
to  one's  enjoyment  in  the  work  of  one  artist 
should  never  be  interpreted  as  an  inability  to 
understand  and  respond  to  the  charm  of  the 
works  of  other  contemporaries.  The  author 
has  therefore  endeavored  simply  to  provide  such 
material  as  will  enable  collectors  to  answer  the 
oft  repeated  question  of  their  friends,  "Who 
shall  make  my  book-plate?"  Such  a  commis- 
sion can  safely  be  entrusted  to  any  of  the 
individuals  named  in  the  following  list,  as  well 
as  to  many  not  here  recorded  for  lack  of  space. 
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ALPHABETICAL   LIST  OF   MODERN  ARTISTS 

WHO  MAKE   BOOK-PLATES 

A  SELECTION 

References  for  the  lists  of  plates  are  as  indicated : 

B  —  Boston,  Musenm  of  Fine  Arts.    "  Catalogue  of  a 
Loan  Exhibit  of  Book-plates."     1898. 

E  —  Ex  Libris  Journal.     1891-date. 

F  —  Fincham.    "Artists  and  Engravers  of  British 
and  American  Book-plates."     1897. 

H  — Hamilton.     "  French  Book-plates."     1896. 

L  —  Leiningen-Westerburg.  "  German  Book-plates." 
1901. 

S  — Stone.     "  Book-plates  of  To-day."    1902. 
Abbey,  Edwin  Austin.      Morgan  Hall,  Fairford,  Gloucester- 
shire, England. 

A  celebrated  artist,  an  American  by  birth, 
although  making  his  home  much  of  the 
time  in  England.  His  best  known  book- 
plate is  the  one  made  by  him  for  James 
Brander  Matthews.    See  B.,  p.  87;  F.,  p.  1. 

Andr€,  Henry.     3  Faubourg,  Saint  Jacques,  Paris,  France. 

See  B.,  p.  34  ;  H.,  p.  303. 

Avrii,  Paul.     Paris,  France. 

Both  designer  and  etcher.     See  B.,  p. 
34 ;  H.,  p.  304. 
BarlSsius,  Georg.    Charlottenburg,  near  Berlin,  Germany. 

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See  L.,  p.  385  and  p.  406. 

Barrett,  William  Phillips.     350  Oxford  Street,  London,  W., 
England. 

Like  many  of  the  artists  of  the  past  this 
gentleman  began  at  the  tender  age  of  seven 
years  to  draw  and  paint  pictures.  Having 
passed  through  the  schools  of  South  Ken- 
sington, he  entered,  in  1871,  the  employ 
of  Messrs.  J.  and  E.  Bumpus,  of  London, 
as  the  designer  of  book-covers.  His  first 
work  in  the  field  of  ex-libris  was  a  plate 
made  for  Lady  Gerard  in  1896.  His  style 
is  well-defined  and  consistent  throughout. 
He  avoids  all  designs  that  in  any  way  per- 
tain to  the  Impressionist  School,  and  looks 
with  distinct  disfavor  on  the  admission  into 
the  department  of  book-plates  of  effects 
that  are  grotesque  or  crude.  See  E.,  v.  8, 
p.  81-82. 

Bell,  Robert  Anning.     Hogarth  Club,  Dover  Street,  London, 
England. 

No  one  can  wander  far  in  the  paths  of 
art   history  without  noticing    how    often 
architecture    has    formed     the    basis    for 
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decorative  work  of  all  kinds.  Mr.  Bell  is 
another  of  the  artists  who  began  life  as  an 
architect,  and  after  the  early  years  of 
training  gave  up  planning  buildings  and 
took  up  the  work  of  making  pictures.  He 
studied  in  Paris  under  the  celebrated 
Aim^e  Morot  and  later  in  the  Schools  of 
the  Royal  Academy.  His  time  has  been 
much  occupied  with  the  work  of  a  painter,  a 
sculptor,  an  illustrator  of  books,  and  a 
designer  ;  yet  with  it  all  he  has  found  the 
opportunity  to  make  many  choice  book- 
plates. At  present  he  is  the  Director  of 
the  Art  School  of  Liverpool  University. 
See  B.,  p.  61  and  p.  96  ;  R,  p.  8-9  ;  S.,  p. 
47-48. 

Bouvenne,  AgiaOs.    24  rne  Cormeille,  Levallois-Perret,  Paris, 
France. 

A  celebrated  French  artist  who  has 
three  claims  to  attention  :  as  an  author  of 
art  literature,  as  a  general  etcher,  and  as  a 
maker  of  some  of  the  most  exquisite  book- 
plates to  be  found  among  the  productions 
of  any  country.  To  collectors  he  is  per- 
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haps  best  known  by  the  plates  made  by 
him  for  Victor  Hugo,  Alexis  Martin,  Octave 
Uzanne,  Th^ophile  Gautier,  Champfleury, 
and  the  Rebus  plate  for  the  Comtesse  Noe. 
SeeB.,  p.  34-35;  H.,  p.  307. 

Braqutmond,  Felix.     Paris,  France. 

A  designer  and  an  etcher.     See  B.,  p. 
35  ;  H.,  p.  307. 

Brown,  Frank  Chouteau.    9  Park  Street,  Ticknor  House, 
Boston,  Massachusetts. 

This  artist  was  first  interested  in  the 
subject  of  book-plates  by  receiving  from 
Samuel  Davis  an  order  to  make  a  plate  for 
the  books  in  his  library.  Mr.  Brown  is  an 
architect  artist  and  was  trained  to  his  pro- 
fession in  the  School  of  Fine  Arts  in  Min- 
neapolis, having  been  a  pupil  of  Robert 
Koehler,  and  later  he  studied  in  the  Boston 
Art  Club  with  Ernest  Major.  The  keynote 
of  his  work  in  this  field  is  found  in  his 
belief  that  every  book-plate  should  reflect 
the  personality  of  its  owner,  rather  than 
the  character  of  the  book  into  which  it  is 
to  be  pasted.  As  every  individual  meets 
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MODEEN    ABTISTS 

life  at  a  different  angle,  the  working  out  of 
his  theory  has    produced  a  collection  of 
plates  conspicuous  for  their  variety  and 
interest.     See  B.,  p.  88 ;  F.,  p.  12. 
Cameron,  D.  Y.     Glasgow,  Scotland. 

One  of  the  members  of  a  little  group  of 
artists  known  as  the  "Glasgow  School  of 
Designers."  Most  of  his  plates  are  etch- 
ings of  the  most  charming  and  dainty 
character.     See  F.,  p.  15-16  ;  S.,  p.  48-49. 

Castle,  Agnes.  49  Sloan  Gardens,  London,  S.  W.,  England. 
The  wife  and  literary  partner  of  Egerton 
Castle.  Among  her  best  plates  are  the 
two  forms  of  the  excellent  Library  Interior 
made  for  her  husband,  a  Pictorial  design 
made  for  Walter  Herries  Pollock,  and  the 
attractive  child's  plate  made  for  her  little 
daughter,  Marie  Louise  Egerton  Castle. 
See  B.,  p.  72  ;  P.,  p.  16. 
Chambers,  Jay.    New  York  City,  New  York. 

See  Stone,  "  Jay  Chambers :  his  Book- 
plates." p.  1-2. 
Clark,  Arthur  Wellington.     Lawrence,  Kansas. 

The  Health  Officer  of  Lawrence,  Kansas. 
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He  has  designed  fifty-six  book-plates. 
These  have  been  for  his  friends  and  for 
himself.  He  is  very  original  and  strong 
in  his  work,  and  is  kind  and  courteous  in 
arranging  exchanges  with  other  collectors. 
One  of  his  best  plates  is  a  Rebus  design 
made  for  Helen  and  George  Beach.  See 
E.,  V.  11,  p.  74-75. 
Clute,  Beulah  Mitchell.     Park  Eidge,  Illinois. 

One  of  the  foremost  women  designers  in 
this  country.  She  has  made  a  number  of 
plates  in  which  the  drawing  is  correct  in 
form  and  the  thought  well  carried  out. 
Her  child's  plate  for  Marjory  and  Percival 
Mitchell  has  attracted  much  notice  and 
brought  forth  many  expressions  of  appre- 
ciation. In  it  she  has  carried  out,  not  her 
own  idea  of  the  child,  but  the  child's 
thought  of  itself,  which  is  the  essential 
point.  In  this  plate  we  find  not  only  the 
"cow  that  jumped  over  the  moon"  and 
"Goosey,  Goosey  Gander,"  but  dear  old 
Mother  Goose  herself  touching  with  her 
magic  wand  the  imaginations  of  two  little 
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tots  curled  up  on  the  floor  amid  their  toys, 
busy  with  an  open  book. 

One  notices  a  change  in  the  manner  of 
signing  the  plates  of  recent  creation,  which 
she  explains  by  saying  that  she  and  her 
husband  are  working  together  now,  and 
that  the  device  used  in  signing  is  a  combi- 
nation of  the  initials  of  both. 
Craig,  Gordon.     London,  England. 

Mr.  Craig  is  too  well-known  to  collectors 
to  need  much  introduction.  As  the  genius 
of  the  "Page"  he  has  laid  us  all  under 
obligations  to  him.  He  is  also  familiar  to 
lovers  of  book-plates  from  the  many  speci- 
mens from  his  studio.  The  best  known  is 
the  plate  he  made  for  Ellen  Terry.  See 
S.,  p.  49. 

Crane,    Walter.     13  Holland  Street,  Kensington,  W.,  Lon- 
don, England. 

Many  claims  may  be  made  for  including 

this  artist  in  our  list.     He  is  an  illustrious 

painter,  both    in    oil    and    water-color,  a 

designer  whose  drawings  are  greatly  prized, 

an  illustrator  of  books,  an  art  writer,  and 

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one  of  our  best  book-plate  artists.     See  B., 

p.  68  ;  F.,  p.  21. 
Dachenhausen,  Augustus  Albert  Frederick  George  Alexander, 
Baron  von.     Munich,  Germany. 

A  German  soldier  of  much  renown  and 
from  a  famous  family  of  soldiers.  His 
father  was  a  Major  in  the  Hanoverian  army 
and  Governor  of  the  town  of  Nienburg. 
Baron  Dachenhausen  left  the  army  invalided 
in  1876,  and  since  that  time  has  devoted  his 
energies  to  art.  See  B.,  p.  21 ;  E.,  v.  11, 
p.  108  ;  L.,  p.  380. 

Doepler,  E.     2  DOrnbergstrasse,  Berlin,  Germany. 

See  B.,  p.  18-19 ;  L.,  p.  364-366. 
Edwards,  George  Wharton.    Plainfield,  New  Jersey. 

An  American  artist  and  creator  of  many 
book-plates.  Mr.  Edwards  is  a  specialist 
in  the  field  of  book  illustration  and  orna- 
mentation. A  fine  specimen  of  his  work 
is  to  be  found  in  Spenser's  "  Epithalamion.'* 
See  B.,  p.  89-90  ;  F.,  p.  26 ;  S.,  p.  51. 
Eno,  Henry  C.  Sangatnok,  Connecticut. 
See  B.,  p.  90. 

Erler,  Fritz.     Munich,  Germany. 

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Both  a  designer  and  an  etcher  and  a 
contributor  to  the  "  Jugend."  See  L.,  p. 
393 ;  S.,  p.  51. 

Evi,  Gaorge  W.  573  Chiswick,  High  Road,  London,  England. 
One  of  the  celebrated  modern  engravers, 
whose  work  it  is  a  privilege  to  own.  Best 
known  as  the  creator  of  the  book-plates  for 
the  library  of  Windsor  Castle.  See  B.,  p. 
72  ;  F.,  p.  28. 

Fisher,  William  Edgar.    Fargo,  North  Dakota. 

An  artist  who  has  more  than  the  usual 
ability  to  produce  original  and  dainty 
plates.  Of  the  seventy  designs  bearing 
his  signature,  one  tries  in  vain  to  find  one 
more  charming  or  more  appropriate  than 
another.     See  S.,  p.  51-52. 

Foster,  W.  H.     6  Holyrood  Place,  Plymouth,  England. 

See  B.,  p.  77 ;  F.,  p.  30-31. 
French,  Edwin  Davis.    Saranac  Lake,  New  York. 

Prevented  by  ill  health  from  continuing 

his  college   course  at  Brown  University, 

Mr.  French  was  induced  by  a  manufacturer 

in  North  Attleboro,  Massachusetts,  to  take 

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up  the  profession  of  engraving  on  silver- 
ware. In  1876  he  went  to  New  York  City 
as  the  head  of  the  engraving  department 
of  this  same  firm. 

In  order  to  secure  the  required  art 
training,  he  attended  the  Art  Students' 
League  of  New  York  and  eventually 
became  its  President.  He  was  directly 
connected  also  with  the  founding  of  the 
American  Fine  Arts  Society. 

In  1893  Miss  Brainerd  (now  Mrs.  Lay, 
of  Chicago),  who  is  Mr.  French's  sister- 
in-law,  and  whose  energy  and  ability  are 
recognized  by  collectors  through  her 
connection  with  the  book-plate  collection 
of  Columbia  University,  persuaded  Mr. 
French  to  engrave  her  a  personal  book- 
plate. This  was  the  first  time  he  had 
given  the  subject  of  book-plates  any  serious 
thought.  The  pleasure  it  gave  him  to 
make  this  plate  induced  him  to  make  plates 
for  himself  and  his  wife.  A  set  of  these 
family  plates  were  shown  at  the  Exhibi- 
tion of  the  Architectural  League  of  New 
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York,  held  in  January  of  1894,  and  excited 
much  interest  in  ex-libris  circles.  It 
brought  Mr.  French  his  first  order  (out- 
side his  family  circle),  namely,  the  com- 
mission to  make  a  plate  for  Beverly  Chew. 
Since  then  he  has  been  constantly  at 
work  engraving  book-plates.  He  usually 
designs  the  plates  he  engraves,  but  in  a 
few  instances  he  has  engraved  the  designs 
that  were  brought  him  from  other  artists. 
His  plates  number  two  hundred  and  twen- 
ty-five, a  very  large  number,  when  one 
remembers  the  careful  painstaking  work 
upon  them,  and  the  short  period  of  time  in 
which  he  has  devoted  himself  to  this  branch 
of  art.  Collectors  vie  with  each  other  in 
showing  their  appreciation  of  his  work. 
SeeS.,  p.  52-56. 

Garrett,  Edmund  H.  Studio  Building,  Boston,  Massachusetts. 
Mr.  Garrett  received  his  training  in  the 
Academic  Julian,  Paris,  and  has  also  sat  at 
the  feet  of  such  men  as  Jean  Paul  Lau- 
rens, Boulanger,  and  Lefebvre.  He  is  the 
author  of  several  books,  among  which  are 
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the  "Elizabethan  Songs";  "Three  Her- 
oines of  New  England  Romance";  and 
"Romance  and  Reality  of  the  Puritan 
Coast." 

As  no  list  including  any  of  his  more 
recent  book-plates  is  in  print,  the  following 
tabulation  is  given  by  his  kind  permission. 

LIST  OF  PLATES  MADE  BY  EDMUND  H.  GARRETT 

PREPARED  BY  THE  AUTHOR :  REVISED 

AND  AUTHORIZED  BY  THE 

ARTIST 

1893 

1  Charles  Dexter  Allen 

W.  H.  W.  Bicknell.     so. 

2  Paul  Lemperley 

3  Francis  Wilson 

W.  H.  W.  Bicknell.     so. 
i        Small  Monogram  plate  for  same. 
1894 

5  Edmund  H.  Garrett 

Large. 

6  Small ;  another  design. 

7  Small ;  another  design. 

8  M.  Westall  Pettee 

9  Joseph  Huntress  Wheeler 

1895 
10  Hiram  Edmond  Deats 

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11  Frederick  W.  French 

12  University  Club  of  Boston 

13  Florence  Sylvia  Wheeler 

1896 

14  Alfred  Gooding 

15  Edwin  Ruthven  Lamson 

E.  D.  French,    sc. 

16  Frank  Gair  Macomber 

17  Mary  E.  Norcross 

18  Eliza  Atkins  Stone 

1897 

19  William  M.  Conant,  M.  D. 

20  Henry  A.  Sherwin 

21  Joseph  Huntress  Wheeler 

His  old  plate  altered. 

22  C.  Williams,  Jr. 

1898 

23  Frank  Lysart  Dunne 

24  De  Witt  Miller 

25  John  Sewall  Alcott  Pratt 

1899 

26  William  Phillips,  Jr. 

27  J.  Otis  Wardwell 

1900 

28  John  W.  Farlow,  M.  D. 

29  John  Fiske 

30  Harvard  University 

I  Riant  Collection. 
81        II  Thompson  Collection. 

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Two  forms  of  the  same  plate. 

32  Arthur  Curtis  Judd 

33  Weston  Public  Library 

( Mass. )  Two  forms  of  this  plate  ;  one  an 
etching,  the  other  a  photolithograph. 

1901 

34  Bowdoin  College 

35  Elizabeth  Cheney 

36  Josiah  Stearns  Cushing 

37  Leslie  E.  Kily 

38  George  M.  Thornton 

1902 

39  Edwin  Scott  Barbour 
Edith  Henry  Barbour 

This  is  one  plate. 

40  Belmont  Public  Library 

( Mass.)  Two  forms  of  this  plate ;  one  an 
etching,  the  other  a  photolithograph. 

41  Elizabeth  S.  Cheney 

42  Derby  Public  Library 

( Conn.)  ,  Two  forms  of  this  plate ;  one  an 
etching,  the  other  a  photolithograph.  Five 
small  donor  labels  for  same : 

1  George  C.  Allis 

2  Dr.  Charles  T.  Baldwin 

3  John  W.  Peck 

4  Sarah  Riggs  Humphrey  Chapter  D.  A.  R. 

5  Reading  Circle  Library,  East  Derby. 

43  Lowell  Public  Library 

City  seal  and  border. 

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1903 

44  0.  C.  Olapp 

45  Dalton 

Family  plate. 

46  Thomas  W.  Lawson 

I  Charlesgate  Library 

47  II  Dreamwold  Library 
Goodhue,  Bertram  G.     Boston,  Massachusetts. 

Another  artist  who  is  also  an  architect. 
He  has  made  two  fine  plates  for  Harvard 
University,  that  will  long  keep  him  in 
mind  by  those  needing  his  services.  See 
S.,  p.  50. 
Greenaway,  Kate.    London,  England. 

Called  the  "Children's  artist"  because 
of  her  happy  creations  of  pictured  children. 
As  one  might  expect,  she  has  selected  for 
her  share  in  the  work  on  ex-libris  the  plates 
for  children.  See  F.,  p.  36. 
Greene,  Edith  Anne.    Bristol,  England. 

An  English  artist,  many  of  whose  plates 
have  been  made  for  women.     See  B.,  p. 
74  ;  F.,  p.  37. 
Greiner,  Otto.    (Now  in  Rome.) 
See  L.,  p.  426. 

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Hackley,  M.  F.     Rowayton,  Fairfield  Connty,  Gonnectiont. 
Hadlow,  F.  V.     9  Prince  Albert  Street,  Brighton,  England. 

An  engraver  and  die-sinker.     See  B.,  p. 
64  ;  F.,  p.  39. 

Halkett,  G.  R.     Edinburgh,  Scotland. 

See  F.,  p.  39. 

Harrison,  Thomas  Erat.    3  Bath  Road,  Bedford  Park,  Chis- 
wick,  London,  England. 

The  artist  of  the  two  familiar  plates 
made,  the  one  for  W.  E.  Gladstone,  and 
the  othhT  for  Sir  Edgar  Boehm.  Mr. 
Harrison  was  educated  at  the  University 
College  School  and  at  the  University  of 
London.  He  studied  art  in  the  Carey  Art 
School  and  in  Paris  under  J.  G6r5me ; 
returning  to  London  he  worked  with  W. 
B.  Richmond  and  later  at  the  Royal  Acad- 
emy. His  work  in  this  field  began  in 
1885,  since  which  time  he  has  been  con- 
stantly at  work,  adding  to  his  list  of  beau- 
tiful book-plates.  See  B.,  p.  66  ;  E.,  v.  2, 
p.  74  ;  F.,  p.  40-41. 
Hildebrandt,  Adolf   M.    3  Schillstrasse,  Berlin,  Germany. 

See  L.,  p.  363-364. 
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Hirzei,  Hermann  R.  C.     Charlottenburg,  near  Berlin,  Ger- 
many. 

The  work  of  this  artist  is  the  exponent 

of  the  modern  Swiss  book-plate  art.     He 

has  made  one  hundred  and  fifteen  plates 

of    charming   creation.     He    sits   in    the 

School  of  Nature  and  copies  his  designs 

from  the  pictures  laid  out  for  him  in  the 

romantic  landscape  about  him.     His  plates 

are    fragrant    'with     Swiss    flowers,     and 

inspired  by  the  folklore  of  the  Swiss  people. 

See  L.,  p.  407-408  ;  also  '*  Ex-libris  von 

Hermann  R.  C.  Hirzei."     Berlin.     Fisher 

and  Franke,  1902. 

Hollyer,  Samuel.     New  York  City,  New  York. 

Mr.  Hollyer  is  one  of  the  adopted  citi- 
zens of  the  United  States,  having  been 
born  an  Englishman.  From  1868  to  the 
present  time  he  has  been  busy  as  an 
engraver  of  portraits,  historical  scenes,  and 
purely  decorative  pictures. 

On  account  of  the  fact  that  much  of  his 
work  in  the  field  of  ex-libris  has  been  the 
retouching  and  reengraving  of  old  plates, 
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he  has  earned  among  collectors  the  playful 
title  of  "Doctor."  His  Mary  Anderson 
plate,  a  most  charming  bit  of  engraving, 
in  which  we  see  a  reproduction  of  her 
home,  and  the  plate  made  by  him  for  John 
V.  L.  Pruyn,  are  fair  representatives  of 
his  style.     See  B.,  p.  96  ;  F.,  p.  44. 

Hopson,  William  F.      730    Whitney    Avenue,   New    Haven, 
Connecticut. 

This  artist  is  the  well-known  illustrator 
of  many  familiar  books.  The  twenty-five 
hundred  picture  cuts  in  the  last  edition 
of  Webster's.  Dictionary  were  made  by 
his  skilful  hands.  He  also  illustrated  the 
fine  edition  of  Professor  Marsh's  work  on 
extinct  animals,  requiring  the  faithful 
portraits  of  many  creatures  unfamiliar  to 
the  modern  eye.  He  was  the  founder  and 
has  been  the  President  of  the  New  Haven 
Sketch  Club,  and  is  a  member  of  many 
other  artistic  and  social  clubs.  While  Mr. 
Hopson  has  been  an  engraver  practically 
all  of  his  life,  it  was  not  until  1892  that  he 
became  employed  in  the  creation  of  book- 
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plates. 

His  plates  are  very  beautiful  and  no  two 
of  them  are  sufficiently  alike  to  suggest 
the  other.  We  add  here  the  complete  list 
of  his  plates  <to  date,  feeling  sure  it  will  be 
of  use  to  collectors,  since  no  recent  list  is 
in  print.  Mr.  Hopson  has  kindly  revised 
the  author's  manuscript  of  tjiis  list  and  has 
authorized  its  publication. 

LIST  OF  PLATES  MADE  BY  WILLIAM  F.  HOPSON 

PREPARED  BY  THE  AUTHOR :  REVISED 

AND  AUTHORIZED  BY  THE 

ARTIST 

1892 

1  W.  F.  Hopson 

1893 

2  W.  F.  Hopson 

3  New  Haven  Public  Library 

4  George  Dudley  Seymour 

1894 

5  Adam 

Soft  ground  etching.  Made  in  imitation 
of  a  French  publication,  which  issued 
Imaginary  book-plates  of  literary  men  and 
others  ;  the  publisher  was  Monsieur  Joly. 

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He  was  so  well  pleased  with  the  plate  that 
he  wished  to  purchase  it,  but  instead  he  was 
made  a  present  of  it. 

6  Ex  Libris  Society  Monogram 

C.  W.  S.     del.     (After  C.  W.  Sherborn.) 
Only  a  few  printed.     This  was  an  experi- 
ment, a  half-tone  plate,  made  in  reverse,  so 
as  to  print  as  a  copperplate.     Only  a  few 
trial  prints  were  taken. 

7  George  Dudley  Seymour 

1895 

8  Frederick  J.  Libbie 

9  John  Howard  Payne 

An  Imaginary  plate,  made  for  a  New  York 
publisher. 

10  May  Peabody 

11  Josephine  E.  S.  Porter 

12  Gustave  R.  Sattig 

13  E.  G.  Stoddard 

14  Margaret  Van  Zandt 

1896 

15  Frederick  Graham  and  Annie  E.  Aylward 

I  Wood-engraving,  literary. 
W.  E.  Home.     del.     1893. 
II  Remarque  plate. 

16  Blackstone  Public  Library,  Branford. 

17  W.F.'Hopson 

The  Graphic  Arts. 

18  Stewart  Means 

19  Maria  M.  Sterling 

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1897 

20  Adrian  Hoffman  Joline 

21  C.  S.  Mersick 

22  Augustus  J.  Phillips 

23  John  S.  Wood 

1898 

24  J.  J.  H. 

25  Ada  M.  Hopson 

26  Alexander  Wolfgang  Mack 

27  Rachel  Norton 

28  Frederick  Wells  Williams 

1899 

29  Joannis  M.  Berdan 

30  Joseph  B.  Ensign 

1900 

31  Charles  Dexter  Allen 

32  N.  J.  D. 

33  New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society 

Unfinished. 

34  William  Lyon  Phelps 

1901 

35  George  William  Beatty 

36  Robert  M.  Chamberlain 

Died  in  college  ;  his  mother  had  the  plate 
made  as  a  memorial. 

37  Connecticut  State  Library 

38  Charles  H.  Ferry 

This  plate  describes  the  owner's  most  con- 
genial pursuits,  reading  and  fishing.     The 

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view  is  from  a  photograph  taken  by  him 
when  on  a  fishing  trip  down  the  North  Fork 
of  the  Flambeau  River  in  Wisconsin.  The 
family  crest  is  shown  in  the  fleurs-de-lis 
with  the  motto  "  Garde  ta  foy." 

39  C.  M  W. 

Monogram.     C.  M.  Waites. 

40  Henry  Wheelen,  Jr 

41  Yale  University 

1902 

42  Frederick  Graham  Aylward 

Wood-engraving.  Same  as  No.  15,  with 
wife's  name  taken  out.  Mr.  Aylward  never 
saw  it,  as  he  died  before  it  was  finished. 

43  Melissa  A.  Carter 

44  Frank  Addison  Corbin 

45  Alice  Morgan  Crocker 

46  Anna  L.  Curtis 

47  Charles  J.  Hoadley  and  George  E.  Hoadley 

48  Colin  M.  Ingersoll,  Jr. 

49  Middlesex  County  Historical  Society 

50  Frederick  W.  Skiff 

51  Caroline  M.  Smith 

Joline  Smith,     del.     Remarque  plate. 
62  Louis  N.  Wilson 

53  Joseph  Gurley  Woodward 

1903 

54  Arthur  W.  and  Emma  L.  T.  Cole 

55  J.  Herbert  Johnston 

56  Eli  Whitney 

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Johnston,  Graham.     London,  England. 

One  of  the  younger  men  in  the  group 
of  heraldic  designers  and  by  birth  a  Scotch- 
man. He  began  his  work  in  the  engrav- 
ing and  lithographing  firm  of  Messrs. 
Scott  and  Fergueson  and  while  there,  was 
employed  in  the  Lyon  Office,,  emblazoning 
the  different  Patents  of  Arms,  which  is  the 
field  of  his  present  work.  As  Painter  at 
the  Lyon  Office,  most  of  his  plates  are  those 
made  for  Scotchmen  whose  arms  happen 
to  be  matriculated  at  the  Lyon  Office. 
See  E.,  V.  12,  p.  90. 

Klinger.  Max.     Leipsic,  Germany. 

See  L.,  p.  422. 

Leighton,  John.     London,  England. 

See  B.,  p.  62  ;  F.,  p.  56. 

Levetus,  Celia.     Birmingham,  England. 

By  birth  this  artist  is  a  Canadian,  but 
by  residence  she  is  an  Englishwoman  and 
a  student  of  the  Kensington  Art  School. 
She  is  best  known  as  a  book  and  periodical 
illustrator,  but  she  has  also  made  some  fine 
plates.  See  E.,  v.  7,  p.  112  ;  F.,  p.  57. 
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LltUr,  Hamal.    Basil  Grange,  West  Derby,  Liverpool,  Eng- 
land. 

An  Englishwoman  of  marked  ability. 
She  was  the  subject  of  a  sketch  in  Ex 
Libris  Journal  of  May,  1895,  when  her 
career  in  the  ex-libris  field  was  just  open- 
ing. Since  then  she  has  made  a  number 
of  plates,  representing  work  so  carefully 
and  artistically  done  as  to  attract  much 
attention.  Her  special  style  is  the  Sym- 
bolical Pictorial.  One  plate  of  special 
attractiveness  is  a  Musical  design  made  for 
Edgar  Graeme  Lister.  Leaning  on  a  pile 
of  books  are  the  violin  and  mandolin,  well 
to  the  foreground  of  the  plate.  The  family 
crest,  the  college  badge,  and  the  yachts- 
man's anchor  complete  the  picture.  Around 
the  frame  of  the  plate  is  the  motto :  "  Old 
wood  to  bum  :  old  times  to  think :  old 
books  to  read  :  old  friends  to  trust." 

Miss  Lister  has  kindly  permitted  the  list 
of  her  plates  to  be  given  now  for  the  first 
time  to  collectors. 

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LIST  OF  PLATES   MADE  BY  MISS  HAMEL  LISTER 

PREPARED  BY  THE  AUTHOR  :  REVISED 

AND  AUTHORIZED  BY  THE 

ARTIST 

1893 

1  J.  C.  Powell 

1894 

2  Henry  Scott  Boys 

3  Another  size. 

4  Mary  Annette  Hamel 

5  Another  size. 

6  Edgar  Graeme  Lister 

7  Another  size. 

1895 

8  Septimus  Castle 

9  Another  size. 

10  Venetia  Helen  Cooper 

11  Ernest  George  Hill 

12  Another  size. 

1896 

13  Daisy  Calder 

14  Another  size. 

15  Thomas  Duff  Gordon  Duff 

16  Another  size. 

17  Arthur  Ernest  Evans 

1897 

18  Arthur  Henry  Caldicott 

19  Lucy  Silcox 

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1898 

20  Douglas  Powell 

21  Isabel  Chenevix  Trench 

1899 

22  James  Calder 

23  Another  size 

24  Gordon  Alexander  Duff 

Harry  Soane.     so. 

25  Gordon  Beauchamp  Duff 

1902 

26  Kate  Childs  Forwood 

1903 

27  James  Robert  Davies 

Harry  Soane.     sc. 

Little,  Florence   Estelle.     672  East  Prospect  Street,  Cleve- 
land, Ohio. 

Marks,  Henry  Stacy.     5  Saint  Edmond's  Terrace,  London, 
N.  W.,  England. 

A  native  of  London  and  long  one  of  its 
best  illustrators  and  decorators.  His 
designs  are  often  humorous  and  always 
made  with  clear  bold  outlines.  In  the 
field  of  ex-libris  he  has  been  a  worker  only 
since  1864,  yet  his  early  plates  are  scarce 
and  hard  to  secure.  See  B.,  p.  63-64 ; 
E.,  V.  2,  p.  34-35  ;  F.,  p.  62. 
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May,  Phil.     Office  of  Punch,  London,  England. 

See  E.,  V.  6,  p.  53  ;  F.,  p.  64. 
Metcalfe,  John  Henry.    London,  England. 

As  a  boy  Mr.  Metcalfe  longed  to  follow 
his  father's  profession  and  be  a  soldier  in 
the  East  India  Company's  Military  Ser- 
vice, but  the  love  of  art  grew  with  his 
years,  and  when  he  came  to  the  point  of 
decision,  he  chose  to  follow  his  artistic 
bent.  He  was  at  first  apprenticed  to  C. 
J.  Richardson,  the  "  Architect  to  the  Bank 
of  England,"  and  with  him  became  a  stu- 
dent at  the  Royal  Academy,  and  later 
attended  various  other  art  schools.  After 
some  years  he  gave  up  architecture,  finding 
it  uncongenial,  and  devoted  himself  instead 
to  general  art  work.  During  recent  years 
he  has  been  busy  making  armorial  stained 
windows,  wood-carving,  book  illustrations, 
seals,  brasses,  and  book-plates. 

Some  of  his  best  work  is  in  the  charm- 
ing library  of  the  Duke  of  Westminster, 
Eaton  Hall,  Chester.     This  includes  the 
beautiful  windows  and  the  still  more  beau- 
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tiful  chimneypieces.  He  has  also  done 
similar  work  for  Oxford  and  Cambridge 
Universities.     See  F.,  p.  65. 

Meyer,  Eduard   Lorenz.     18-22    Neue    Groeningenstrasse, 
Hamburg,  Germany. 

See  B.,  p.  20  ;  L.,  p.  435-436. 

Monk,  William.    Hogarth  Studio,  64  Charlotte  Street,  Fitz- 
roy  Square,  London,  W.,  England. 

See  B.,  p.  76  ;  F.,  p.  66. 

Nixon,  Joiin  Forbes.    Ill  Nightingale  Road,  Wood  Oreen, 

London,  N.,  England. 

An  English  heraldic  artist,  who  for  many 
years  was  with  Messrs.  Routledge  and  Sons. 
He  has  also  been  connected  with  the 
"  Illustrated  Magazine  for  Boys"  and  been 
the  illustrator  of  many  familiar  books. 
Perhaps  he  is  best  known  as  the  illustrator 
of  "  Peerage  "  and  the  obituary  column  of 
the  "Pictorial  World."  Indeed  there  is 
no  field  in  which  heraldic  work  is  used 
that  his  skilful  illustrations  are  not  to  be 
found.  He  has  done  much  to  raise  the 
standard  of  heraldic  work  by  his  persistent 
creation  of  the  zoology  of  heraldry  rather 
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UNIVERSITY 


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choice  bits  of  artistic  decoration  as  the 
plates  made  by  her  for  Lily  Pitman,  Masie 
Key  Clarke,  Betty  Macmillan,  and  a  few 
others  like  them,  give  collectors  the  right 
to  expect  great  achievements  from  her. 

Prindiville,  Mary   L.     388    North    State    Street,  Chicago, 
Illinois. 

This  artist  received  her  art  education 
at  the  Art  Institute  of  Chicago.  She  has 
been  a  pupil  of  Pauline  Dohn  and  John 
H.  Vanderpoel,  and  has  taught  art  in  the 
classes  of  the  Chicago  Institute.  In  her 
later  plates  she  has  supplied  the  lack 
noticeable  in  early  work  by  signing  and 
dating  each  design. 
Rassenfosse,  Armand.    Li^ge,  Belgium. 

A  celebrated  Belgian  artist  working  in 
the  ex-libris  field  of  art.  His  plates  use 
freely  the  "feminine  nude"  and  seem  to 
breathe  the  art  atmosphere  of  Paris.  See 
S.,  p.  59. 

Reade,  Christia  M.     Room  847,  Annex,  Marshall  Field  Build- 
ing, Chicago,  Illinois. 

See  B.,  p.  101. 

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Rhead,  Louis.     72  Ocean  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

This  artist,  who  came  of  a  family  of 
artists,  was  born  in  Etruria,  Staffordshire, 
England,  a  place  famous  for  its  wedgwood 
pottery  and  its  associations  with  George 
Eliot,  Eudyard  Kipling,  and  John  Wesley 
and  Whitfield.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  he  was 
placed  under  the  instruction  of  the  famous 
French  painter,  Boulanger ;  at  fifteen  he 
had  won  the  national  scholarship  which  gave 
him  free  tuition  at  South  Kensington. 
Later  he  studied  with  John  Leighton, 
Alphonse  Legros,  the  celebrated  sculptor 
Dalou,  and  President  Poynter  of  the  Royal 
Academy.  In  1883  Mr.  Rhead  transferred 
his  residence  to  America,  and  is  now  classed 
as  an  American  artist.  He  has  done  much 
excellent  work  in  posters,  winning  in  1895 
the  gold  medal  at  the  Boston  Poster  Show. 
Besides  his  book-plates  he  has  made  many 
book  designs.  See  B.,  p.  101 ;  F.,  p.  77  ; 
S.,  p.  59. 

Ricketts,  E.  B.     Hollingbonrn,  Kent,  England. 

A  very  prolific  maker  of  book-plates,  the 
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total  number  of  which  is  more  than  two 
hundred  in  the  last  six  years.  These  range 
in  design  from  a  simple  label  to  the  most 
elaborate  Heraldic  designs. 

Sattler,  Josef.     Schrobenhansen,  Germany. 

The  well-known  German  artist  whose 
original  designs  have  been  the  theme  of 
art  journals  for  the  last  few  years.  He 
received  his  training  at  the  Academy  at 
Munich,  but  found  himself  too  little  in 
sympathy  with  its  methods  of  copying  from 
the  antique.  Instead  of  following  the 
German  fashion  of  Heraldic  plates,  he  has 
modeled  his  work  largely  along  the  lines 
of  the  Allegories  and  Emblematic  types, 
taking  as  his  model  the  great  master, 
Albrecht  Durer.  He  has  made  himself  a 
master  in  some  details  of  plate-making 
overlooked  by  older  artists.  Among  these 
are  the  manner  in  which  he  makes  the 
name  of  the  owner  of  the  plate  an  integral 
part  of  the  design,  rather  than  something 
laid  upon  it,  and  his  unostentatious  intro- 
duction of  his  own  signature.  He  works 
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MODEBN    ARTISTS 

almost  wholly  in  the  field  of  lithography,  a 

method  much  more  common  in  Germany 

than  in  America.     See  B.,  p.  20a ;  E.,  v. 

5,  p.  23 ;  L.,  p.  401. 

Shaw,  Howard  Van  Doren.     4833   Lake    Avenue,  Chicago, 
Illinois. 

Mr.  Shaw  is  an  artist  architect,  like  so 
many  of  the  artists  already  mentioned. 
He  has  made  many  of  the  plates  of  well- 
known  Chicago  people,  as  well  as  two  or 
three  charming  children's  plates.  Among 
the  most  admirable  of  the  plates  from  his 
skilful  hands  is  the  one  made  for  Madeleine 
Clay  McDowell,  the  granddaughter  of 
Henry  Clay.  The  representation  forming 
the  center  of  the  plate  is  of  the  famous 
"Ashland,"  the  farm  home  of  this  illus- 
trious American.  The  present  house  was 
built  on  the  plan  and  with  much  of  the 
materials  of  the  original  home,  to  which  he 
brought,  in  1799,  the  beautiful  bride  he 
had  lately  won.  The  place  is  rich  in  asso- 
ciations connected  with  Mr.  Clay,  many  of 
the  trees  having  been  planted  by  his  own 
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hands,  and  the  entire  picture  representing 

the  familiar  scene  of  his  home  life.     The 

sun-dial  with  its  inscription  reminds    us 

that  change  is  the  law  of  life. 

Sherborn,  Charles  William.     540  King's  Road,  Chelsea,  Lon- 
don, S.  W.,  England. 

The  venerable  engraver  by  whose  kind 
permission  the  frontispiece  of  this  book  is 
given  to  the  reader.  It  represents  the 
well-known  studio  at  Chelsea,  with  the 
celebrated  genius  who  presides  there  busy 
at  his  work.  He  has  justly  been  called 
*' Father  of  the  modern  engraved  book- 
plate," and  is  considered  by  many  compe- 
tent judges  the  greatest  living  engraver  on 
copper.  Plates  that  come  from  his  studio 
have  a  finish  and  a  delicacy  of  shading  and 
are  of  such  Heraldic  correctness  as  to  make 
it  well  nigh  impossible  for  an  expert  to 
suggest  how  they  could  be  made  more 
perfect  and  more  to  be  desired. 

Of  the  two  hundred  and  five  plates  by 
this  artist  in  the  author's  collection,  the 
one  most  prized  was  a  personal  gift  from 
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the  artist  and  is  the  impression  of  the  plate 
he  made  for  his  son,  Charles  Davies  Sher- 
bom,  who  is  known  on  this  side  of  the 
ocean  through  his  valuable  contributions 
to  the  publications  of  the  Smithsonian 
Institution.  This  plate  represents  a 
charming  Library  Interior,  containing  a 
bookcase,  a  writing-table,  and  a  study 
chair.  In  the  background  are  the  marbles 
of  Shakespeare  and  the  Venus  de  Milo. 
The  j&eld  of  work  in  which  young  Mr.  Sher- 
bom  works  is  delicately  suggested  by  a  por- 
trait of  Darwin  and  the  geologist's  tools, 
near  which  hangs  the  Lamp  of  Truth.  An 
English  rose,  to  mark  the  nationality,  lies 
across  the  page  of  a  book  lying  open  on 
the  table,  while  the  family  arms  are 
emblazoned  in  the  glass  of  the  large  win- 
dow near  by.  In  the  upper  part  of  the 
window  oval  is  the  artist's  well-known  sig- 
nature. 

Mr.  Sherborn  began  his  work  as  engraver 
of    art    jewelry.      He    worked   in    Paris, 
Switzerland,  Florence,  and  Rome,  in  which 
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city  he  was  a  pupil  of  the  great  Pietro 
Girometti.  Mr.  Sherborn's  engravings  of 
Apollo,  Shakespeare,  Sir  Seymour  Haden, 
and  Oliver  Cromwell,  and  his  etching  of 
Westminster  Abbey,  are  ranked  with  the 
best  work  of  this  art  in  any  age.  He 
stands  without  a  rival  as  the  exponent  of 
the  old  school,  which  is  in  direct  opposi- 
tion to  the  modern  school.  His  plates 
have  always  some  direct  and  personal  ref- 
erence to  the  owners  of  the  books  into 
which  they  are  to  go.  This  sometimes 
takes  the  form  of  a  monogram,  a  pictorial 
writing  of  the  name,  a  residence,  a  family 
portrait,  or  a  coat  of  arms.  Over  three 
hundred  plates  stand  to  the  credit  of  this 
artist.     See  B.,  p.  69-71 ;  F.,  p.  83-86. 

Sill,  Howard.     2  East  Lexington  Street,  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land. 

See  B.,  p.  102-103  ;  F.,  p.  86. 

Simpson,  Joseph  W.     Edinbnrgh,  Scotland. 

See  S.,  p.  60. 
Smith,  Sidney  L.    Boston,  Massaohnsetts. 
See  B.,  p.  103 ;  F.,  p.  89. 
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Soane,  Harry.    36  Hanway  Street,  London,  W.,  England, 

See  B.,  p.  64 ;  F.,  p.  89-90. 

Spenceley,  J.  Winfred.     Stndio  Building,  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Mr.  Spenceley  began  his  work  as  an 
engraver  in  1882,  in  connection  with  the 
firm  of  Messrs.  John  A.  Lowell  and  Com- 
pany, of  Boston,  as  an  apprentice  to  the 
engraving  department.  One  of  the  plates 
made  by  him  at  this  time  was  the  familiar 
plate  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  but  as 
Mr.  Spenceley  was  not  the  only  engraver 
who  worked  on  the  plate  he  has  not  claimed 
it  as  his  own,  and  it  has  not  been  listed 
with  his  plates,  except  in  the  article  that 
appeared  in  the  Ex  Libris  Journal.* 

In  1887  he  started  in  business  for  him- 
self and  commenced  his  career  as  a  book- 
plate artist,  in  most  instances  designing 
the  plates  he  engraved.  He  visited  the 
Paris  Exposition,  and  spent  some  time  in 
France,  Scotland,  and  England,  studying 
the  work  of  the  artists  of  those  countries. 

*Ex  Libris  Journal,  v.  8,  p.  19. 

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In  1891  he  left  Boston  to  accept  a  position 
with  the  Bank  Note  Company  of  Chicago, 
but  the  climate  was  too  rough  for  his 
health,  and  after  spending  some  time  in 
Mexico,  he  returned  to  Boston,  where  he 
soon  became  firmly  established. 

In  addition  to  his  work  on  book-plates, 
he  has  done  most  excellent  work  as  a  book 
illustrator ;  among  which  might  be  men- 
tioned Hoggson's  "Tangier  the  White"; 
Williams'  "Old  Couple";  and  Allmond's 
"Estelle." 

Mr.  Spenceley  is  a  most  painstaking 
and  industrious  artist.  Everything  that 
comes  from  his  studio  is  a  gem  of  artistic 
creation,  to  be  treasured  by  every  lover  of 
art,  whether  or  no  he  be  also  a  lover  of 
book-plates.  He  covers  a  wide  range  in 
the  styles  of  his  designs  and  executes 
with  equal  skill  the  massive  and  the  dainty 
plate.  As  no  complete  list  of  his  work 
has  been  given  to  collectors,  Mr.  Spenceley 
kindly  consented  to  correct  the  author's 
manuscript  list  and  authorize  its  publication. 
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LIST  OF  PLATES  MADE  BY  J.  WINFRED  SPENCELEY 

PREPARED  BY  THE  AUTHOR  :  REVISED 

AND  AUTHORIZED   BY   THE 

ARTIST 

1883 

1  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 

Partly  engraved  by  Mr.  Spenceley  while  in 
the  employ  of  Messrs.  John  A.  Lowell  and 
Company. 

1895 

2  Alice  Root  Atkinson 

3  Mary  H.  Fee 

4  Frederick  Denison  Lyon 
6  M.  M.  Sands 

The  landscape  is  a  view  from  Pine  Lake, 
Wisconsin. 

6  Ralph  Oliver  Smith 

The  rug  background  of  this  plate  is  a  deli- 
cate reminder  of  Mr.  Smith's  rare  collection 
of  Persian  and  Indian  rugs. 

7  H.  C.  M.  Thomson 

Library  Interior  of  his  former  Chicago 
home. 

1896 

8  Boston  Public  Library 

Seals.  Henry  Mitchell,  del.  The  original 
steel  plate  was  engraved  by  Mr.  Spenceley, 
from  which  several  transfers  were  taken, 
and  other  book-plate  arrangements  made 

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from  these. 
9  William  M.  Derby,  Jr. 
Library  Interior. 

10  Tracy  C.  Drake 

Library  Interior. 

11  Charles  Fry 

Henry  Mitchell,    del. 

12  Norman  W.  Harris 

13  Noble  Foster  Hoggson 

I  Armorial. 

14  II  Emblematic. 

15  Dubois  Henry  Loux 

16  Frederick  Henry  Prince 

Henry  Mitchell,     del. 

17  J.  Winfred  Spenceley 

I  Armorial. 

1897 

18  George  Foster  Barnes 

George  Foster  Barnes,     del, 

19  Billerica  Historical  Society 

20  Boston  Browning  Society 

Label.    Henry  Mitchell,    del. 

21  William  Archer  Butterfield 

22  Charles  E.  Cameron 

I  Pictorial. 

23  II  Plate  and  remarque. 

24  David  W.  Cheever 

25  Alphonso  Trumpbour  Clearwater 

26  Henry  Sargent  Codman 

Henry   Mitchell,    del.    Philip    Codman 
the  second  variety  of  this  plate. 

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27  John  Edward  Devlin 

Henry  Mitchell,    del. 

28  Abram  Garfield 

Abram  Garfield,  del.  The  name  "  Abram 
Garfield "  was  erased  from  the  plate  after 
five  proofs  were  taken.  In  its  present  state 
there  is  no  name  on  the  plate.  The  name 
is  written  in.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Garfield 
nse  the  plate.  It  is  a  Musical  design,  having 
the  notes  of  a  well-known  wedding  march 
at  the  top  of  the  plate. 

29  James  Rudolph  Garfield 

Mrs.  Garfield,     del. 

30  Henry  Sturgis  Grew 

Henry  Mitchell,  del.  Plate  changed  to 
Randolph  Clark  Grew  ;  different  varieties 
of  the  same  plate. 

31  E.  N.  Hewins 

32  Minnie  C.  Holbrook 

33  Hotel  Tonraine,  Boston. 

Henry  Mitchell,     del. 

34  Ad61e  Tylden  Low 

36  Walter  Conway  Prescott 

Plate  and  remarque.     See  p.  24. 

36  Andrew  Smith  of  Whitchester 

37  J.  Winfred  Spenceley 

II  Pictorial. 

38  20th.     Regiment     Massachusetts     Volunteer 

Infantry  to  the  Boston  Public  Library 

39  Margaret  Van  Zandt 

40  William  Carver  Williams 

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41  Fred  H.  C.  Woolley 

F.  H.  C.  Woolley.     del. 

1898 

42  A.  T.  Bates 

43  Bryson  Library  of  the  Teachers  College 

Charles  Lamb.    del. 

44  Levi  W.  Eaton 

Plate  and  remarque.    See  p.  24-25. 

45  Gardiner  Greene  and  Esther  Lathrop  Ham- 

mond 

Sarah    Whitman,     del.     1898.     Engraved 

1899. 

46  Frank  Hastings 

47  Walter  Conway  Prescott 

Plate  and  remarque.    See  p.  24. 

48  William  Cashing  Wait 

49  Bessie  Hastings  Williams 

1899 

50  George  S.  Chambliss 

51  Detroit  Public  Library 

Noble  Ives.     del. 
62  George  Higginson,  Jr. 

53  Lois  Kellogg 

54  Eva  Lewis 

65  Charles  Edmund  and  Anna  Bristol  Peck 

56  The  W.  H.  Perry  Library 

57  Charles  Pfaff 

58  Frances  Sanford 

59  Robert  and  Herbert  Sooville 

60  Grace  Anderson  Smith 

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61  Mathilde  E.  Thebaud 

62  Library  of  the  University  of  Missouri 

Three  varieties. 

63  J.  B.  W. 

( Julia  Bradford  White.) 

64  Charles  Goddard  Weld 

65  Adrienne  Adams  Wick  ham 

I  Original  plate. 

66  II  Variety  formed  by  adding  a  landscape 

to  the  plate. 

67  Woman's  Club  of  Wisconsin 

1900 

68  C.  Will  Chappell 

69  Mary  M.  Emery 

70  Henry  Kidder  Gilbert 

71  Maude  Heyward 

72  AUene  LeC.  Merrill 

Mary  E.  Rath-Merrill,     del. 
A  child's  plate. 

73  William  Whiting 

1901 

74  The  Alton  Road 

75  Jennie  Price  Black 

76  Elizabeth  Hitchcock  Brayton 

77  Mellen  Chamberlain  Memorial  to  Dartmouth 

College 

F.  E.  Moore,     del. 

78  Minerva  Cushing  Crocker 

79  Zella  Allen  Dixson 

Plate  and  remarque.    See  p.  25-27. 

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80  Alice  A.  Dodsworth 

81  Charles  J.  Livingood 

82  Ethelbert  Ida  Low 

83  Miller 

84  Ohio  State  University  Library 

85  Hannah  Adams  Pfaff 

86  Ethel  Randolph  Thayer 

T.  W.  Thayer,     del. 

87  Zeta  Psi  Club 

(Harvard  University.) 
1902 

88  Charles  Rathbone  Ballon 

89  J.  H.  Gardiner 

There  are  three  varieties  of  this  plate :  R. 
H.  Gardiner,  J.  H.  Gardiner,  and  J.  T.  Gard- 
iner. 

90  George  Silsbee  Hale 

91  George  H.  Mifflin 

Bruce  Rogers,     del. 

92  Horace  Sweeney  Oakley 

Frederick  W.  Gookin.     del. 

93  Lowell  M.  Palmer 

I  Pictorial. 

94  II  Landscape. 

95  A.  M.  S. 

( Adelaide  M.  Smith.) 

96  Redmond  Conyngham  Stewart 

97  Mary  Florence  Taft 

98  Matthew  Henry  Taylor 

99  Maud  Teahon 

100  George  Clififord  Thomas 

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101  Winfred  Porter  Truesdell 

102  University  Club  of  Chicago 

Frederick  W.  Gookin.     del. 

103  John  Wingate  Weeks 

104  A.  Welch 

Bertha  A.  Welch  is  a  second  lettering  of  this 
plate. 

105  Fred  Irwin  Whiting 

Bird.     del. 

106  Margaret  F.  G.  Whitney 

Bertram  Goodhue,     del. 

107  Marie  Winthrop 

Stauffer,  David  McNeely.     St.  Paul's  Building,  New    York 
City,  New  York. 

Mr.  Stauffer  has  made  about  fifty  plates, 
among  them  the  familiar  plate  belonging 
to  Chauncey  Depew.  See  B.,  p.  105-106  ; 
F.,  p.  91. 

Thoma,  Hans.     Karlsruhe,  Baden,  Germany. 

The  Director  of  the  Art  Gallery  and  a 
famous  German  painter.  Since  1895  has 
given  much  time  and  thought  to  the  execu- 
tion of  book-plates.  His  plates  are  full  of 
German  mythology  and  folk-lore  and  beau- 
tiful with  bits  of  landscape  and  merry 
children.  See  L.,  p.  410;  S.,  p.  60-61. 
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Tilney,  Frederick  Colin.   Marquis  Road,  London,  N.,  England. 

This  artist  has  made  a  series  of  designs 

to  be  used  by  binders  and  publishers,  the 

designs  to  be  printed  on  the  end-papers  of 

cloth  bound  books.    See  B.,  p.  75  ;  F.,  p.  96. 

Tute^  C.  E.     London,  England. 

Mr.  Tute's  career  as  an  artist  began  when 
he  was  apprenticed  to  C  Hodgson  Fowler, 
of  Durham,  to  learn  to  be  an  architect. 
Since  those  days  he  has  busied  himself 
with  many  departments  of  art,  but  has  won 
the  greatest  distinction  in  the  field  of 
stained  glass  designing.  The  exquisite 
series  in  the  windows  of  St.  Cuthbert's, 
Philbeach  Gardens,  and  of  the  House  of 
Falkland,  stand  as  eloquent  testimony  to 
his  ability  in  this  line  of  work.  See  E., 
V.  4,  p.  196  ;  F.,  p.  98. 

Vinycomb,  John.     3   Riverside,  Holywood,  Connty    Down, 
Ireland. 

The  author  of  the  valuable  work  entitled 

*'  On  the  Processes  for  the  Production  of 

Ex-libris."      1894.      He    is    a    native    of 

Newcastle-on-Tyne,  and  a  pupil  of  William 

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Bell  Scott.  In  1855  Mr.  Vinycomb  settled 
in  Belfast,  as  the  designer  of  the  firm  of 
Messrs.  Marcus  Ward  and  Company.  He 
is  best  known  by  the  plate  of  Walter 
Besant,*  which  was  made  from  one  of  his 
designs  by  his  pupil,  Hugh  Thomas,  who 
is  known  as  a  London  illustrator  of  books. 
Kobert  Day,  of  Cork,  early  became  the 
friend  of  this  artist,  working  alone  in  the 
north  of  Ireland,  and  helped  him  to  form 
a  working  collection  of  book-plates,  and  to 
make  many  friends  among  those  interested 
in  that  subject.  Many  plates  of  his  crea- 
tion have  appeared  either  anonymously  or 
under  the  name  of  the  firm  so  fortunate  as 
to  control  much  of  his  work  in  this  field. 
See  B.,  p.  65  ;  E.,  v.  3,  p.  22-24  ;  F.,  p.  99. 

Voigt,  Paul.     15  Anhaltstrasse,  Berlin,  S.  W.,  Germany. 

See  B.,  p.  21 ;  L.,  p,  402. 

Wenig,  Bernhard.     Berchtesgaden,  Germany. 

*  Mr.  Castle,  in  his  "  English  Book-plates,"  ascribes 
this  plate  to  R.  Crane,  as  does  Mr.  Vicars  in  his 
"  List  of  Library  Interiors,"  but  he  corrects  this  in 
the  Ex  Libris  Journal,  v.  1,  p.  49,  giving  Mr.  Viny- 
comb the  credit  for  the  design. 

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One  of  the  few  artists  who  have  made  a 
success  of  designing  children's  book-plates. 
See  L.,  p.  420-421 ;  S.,  p.  61-62. 

Weyer.  William    Robert.     Rose    Lane   Corner,  King  Street, 
Norwich,  England. 

Upon  the  completion  of  his  education 
this  artist  entered  the  employment  of  a 
local  firm  of  glass-painters  and  decorators, 
as  their  pen  and  ink  draftsman  and 
designer  of  patterns.  He  has  earned  for 
himself  many  honors  in  this,  his  chosen 
profession,  conspicuous  among  which  was 
the  order  to  ornament  and  illustrate  the 
historical  album  presented  to  the  Duke  and 
Duchess  of  York,  at  the  opening  of  the 
Castle  Museum,  and  the  medal  at  the  ex- 
libris  exhibit  of  November  4,  1894.  See 
B.,  p.  78  ;  F.,  p.  105. 

Whittaker,  Gwladys.     Littleton  Place,  Walsall,  England. 

An  artist  of  rare  ability,  who  is  rapidly 
winning  her  way  to  the  foremost  ranks  of 
book-plate  artists.  Her  designs  are  char- 
acterized by  good  drawing,  good  taste,  and 
surprising  originality.  Few  artists  can 
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show  a  more  varied  assortment  and  yet  a 
more  conspicuously  good  collection. 
Williams,   John.      66  Hillfield    Avenne,  Hornsey,   London, 
England. 

Mr.  Williams  is  best  known  as  a  designer 
of  decorative  metal  and  ecclesiastical  work, 
and  also  as  the  Director  of  the  Artistic 
Crafts  Department  of  the  Northampton 
Institute  in  London.  There  is  a  grace  and 
finish  to  Mr.  Williams'  designs  that  readily 
distinguish  them  as  his  work.  Through 
Mr.  Williams'  kind  cooperation  the  author 
is  able  to  add  the  following. 

LIST    OF     PLATES    MADE     BY     JOHN     WILLIAMS 

ARRANGED     CHRONOLOGICALLY     AND 

AUTHORIZED  BY  THE  ARTIST 

1  P.  W.  Oliver 

Ploral  design.  . 

2  Herbert  Edlmann 

Pictorial  scene,  with  fishing,  gun,  book,  and 
verse. 

3  H.  W.  Fincham 

Library  Interior. 

4  Library  Interior  ;  another  variety. 

5  A.  W.  Fincham 

Library  Interior. 

6  Edward  Crabb 

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A  ship  in  full  sail. 

7  W.  Neumegen 

Floral. 

8  G.  W.  Wilson 

Floral. 

9  Henrioi  Gary  Shuttleworth 

Armorial. 

10  Armorial ;  another  variety. 

11  Charles  William  Roe 

Floral,  with  crest. 

12  G.  H.  Edlmann 

Floral. 

13  Gertrude  Hariot  Edlmann 

Small  floral. 

14  Sophia  Elizabeth  Hall 

Floral,  with  view  of  church. 
16  Mary  Constance  Hall 

Floral,  with  Interior. 

16  Val  Longman 

Floral. 

17  H.  B.  and  R.  L.  Ayres 

Floral. 

18  Edward  Ayres 

Floral. 

19  H.  B.  Ayres 

Floral. 

20  E.  Crawshaw 

Interior,  with  old  books,  instruments,  etc. 

21  Nathaniel  Micklem 

Floral,  with  books. 

22  Another  size. 

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23  R.  W-L.  Dnnnett 

Floral. 

24  T.  D.  MacDowell 

Celtic  pattern. 

25  Another  size. 

26  Alex.  Neale 

27  George  M.  Mills 

Floral,  roses. 

28  Second  variety. 

29  H.  W.  Fincham 

St.  John's  Crypt  and  floral. 
80  Hugh  Giffen  MoKinney 
Celtic  ornament. 

31  St.  John  Clerkenwell 

32  Arthur  Hunnard 

Hunting  scene. 

33  W.  T.  Mitchell 

Interior  view. 

34  Small  floral. 

35  Mary  King  Roberts 

Floral. 

36  John  W.  Sherwell 

Ship  and  dolphins. 

37  Arthur  Linnell  Dawson 

Floral. 

38  Antonia  Collett 

Interior  and  floral  border. 

39  Another  size. 

40  Mark  E.  Collett 

View  of  house  and  garden. 

41  Second  variety. 

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42  R.  Mullineux  Walmsley 

Floral. 

43  Another  size. 

44  J.  G.  Lidstone 

Floral,  lilies. 

45  Shuttleworth  Club 

Floral  and  emblems. 

46  Mary  Walmsley 

Floral,  roses. 

47  R.  D.  Pedley 

Floral. 

48  Northampton  Institute  Library  Clerkenwell 

Fruit  tree. 

49  Northampton  Institute  Library 

Prize  label. 

50  Robert  Crawford  Crooks 

Floral. 

51  Alfred  Fincham 

Heraldic. 

52  Alexander  Hay 

Apple  tree  and  mistletoe. 

53  Optical  Society  of  London 

Orange  tree. 

54  Max  Freund 

Floral ;  "  Rose  and  Oak." 

55  Lord  Decies 

Armorial. 

56  St.   John's  Ambulance  Society ;  Order  of    St. 

John  of  Jerusalem. 
Badge. 
67  Kyre  Park  Library 

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Small  crest. 

58  Bishop  of  Bangor 

Vesica  Armorial. 

59  Montague  Hall 

Armorial. 

60  Cecily  Tryer 

Wreath  design. 

61  A.  J.  V.  Radford 

Armorial. 


Wright,  Alan.     3  Victoria  Gardens,  Notting  Hill  Gate,  Lon- 
don, England. 

Mr.  Wright  has  a  queer  little  device  for 
a  signature  to  the  handsome  plates  he 
signs.  At  first  it  appears  to  be  a  fly  or 
a  beetle  of  some  sort  and  while  one  is  try- 
ing to  decide  why  it  is  used  on  the  plate, 
the  discovery  is  made  that  it  is  a  monogram 
design  of  the  initials  A.  W.  See  B.,  p. 
71 ;  F.,  p.  108-109. 

Wyon,  Allan.     2  Langham  Chambers,  Portland  Place,  Lon- 
don, W.,  England. 

The  author  of  the  volume  "  Great  Seals 

of  England,"  and  the  present  member  of 

an  illustrious  family  of  engravers  who  have 

had  much  to  do  with  these  same  "great 

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seals."  The  members  of  this  family  have 
held  the  office  of  "  Chief  Engraver  of  Her" 
or  "His  Majesty's  Seals"  since  1816  to 
the  present  time,  representing  the  work 
of  a  father  and  three  sons :  Benjamin 
Wyon,  1802-1858;  Joseph  Shepherd 
Wyon,  1836-1873;  Alfred  Benjamin 
Wyon,  1837-1884,  and  this  artist,  1843- 
date.  He  traveled  abroad,  visiting  China, 
Malta,  Egypt,  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  Madeira, 
and  finally  came  to  Scotland,  where  he 
settled  down  for  a  year's  special  study  of 
the  work  of  engravers  there.  He  has  the 
reputation  of  having  designed  more  book- 
plates than  any  other  individual  of  any  age 
or  country.  The  Ex  Libris  Journal*  is 
responsible  for  the  statement  that  a  thous- 
and plates  have  emanated  from  the  Wyon 
establishment,  among  which  a  very  large 
proportion  are  seals  and  ecclesiastical  plates 
made  for  archbishops,  bishops,  cardinals, 
abbots,  and  other  church  officials.  See  B., 
p.  60 ;  E.,  V.  11,  p.  65  ;  F.,  p.  109-110. 

*Ex  Libris  Journal,  v.  11,  p.  65. 

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"  Let  my  name  be  placed  on  the  plate  to  tell . 

The  world  that  my  books  are  mine,  at  a  glance  ; 
Let  it  show  a  sense  of  myself  as  well, 

In  a  closer,  subtler  significance. 
Let  it  hint  at  my  interests, — my  share 

In  the  scope  and  aims  of  life's  wide  plan  : 
Then  each  of  the  books  that  are  mine  shall  bear 

This  badge,  as  the  members  of  one  clan." 

Constance  Jelf-Sharp. 


CLASSIFICATION 

The  final  form  in  which  the  design  is  cast ; 
the  manner  of  its  expression  of  the  owner's  per- 
sonality has  given  rise  to  what  are  called  styles 
of  book-plates.  These  not  only  determine,  in 
many  collections,  the  classification  and  arrange- 
ment of  the  plates,  but  also  furnish  the  terms 
of  description  in  the  identification  of  specimens. 
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England  and  France  have  led  all  other  countries 
in  thus  creating  a  "  language  of  the  kingdom," 
in  which  all  lovers  of  book-plates  at  the  present 
time  delight  to  converse. 

To  the  Honorable  J.  Leicester  Warren  ( Lord 
de  Tabley)  belongs  the  credit  of  writing  the 
first  descriptive  outline  of  the  different  styles  of 
English  book-plates.  In  his  book  entitled 
"Guide  to  the  Study  of  Book-plates,"  1880,  he 
sorts  out  with  wonderful  skill  the  various  types 
of  designs  and  applies  to  them  a  nomenclature 
that  is  still  in  use  to-day,  with  some  modifica- 
tion, amplifications,  and  additions  of  descriptive 
terms  used  in  connection  with  modern  plates. 

A  general  classification  may  be  used  that 
will  divide  the  plates  into  the  two  grand  divi- 
sions. Heraldic  and  Pictorial,  according  to  the 
following  tabulation. 

I     HERALDIC 
1  English  Heraldic 

a  Early  Armorial 

b  Jacobean 

o  Rococo  or  Chippendale 

d  Ribbon  and  Wreath 

e  Modern  Armorial 

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2  French  Heraldic 

( These  periods  do  not  correspond   exactly  to 

the  dates  connected  with  the  historical  periods 

for  which  they  are  named.) 

a  Henry  IV        d  R6gence  ( 1715  and  after ) 

b  Louis  XIII       e  Louis  XV 

c  Louis  XIV        f  Louis  XVI 

II    PICTORIAL 

1  Allegories  11  Medical 

2  Biographical  12  Monogram 

3  Book-piles  13  Musical 

4  Decorative  14  Portraits 

5  Ecclesiastic  15  Printers'  marks 

6  Imaginary  16  Rebus 

7  Landscape  17  Seals 

8  Legal  18  Symbolic  and   Emblematic 

9  Library  Interiors   19  Urns 

10  Literary  20  Vignettes 

Early  Armorial 

A  style  of  book-plate  which  includes  the 
earliest  plates  known.  It  began  in  great 
simplicity,  with  a  plain  shield,  surmounted 
by  a  helmet,  wreath,  and  crest,  the  mantlet 
waving  in  curves  about  the  upper  part  of 
the  shield  and  in  later  examples  extending 
down  both  sides  and  even  showing  below 
the  base.  Sometimes  the  name  is  below 
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the  shield,  sometimes  omitted  entirely. 
As  time  went  on  this  style  became  more 
and  more  elaborate  and  stately,  until  at  the 
close  of  its  period  of  creation  the  mantling 
had  become  so  grotesque  and  fantastical  as 
to  deserve  the  nickname  of  "  periwig  style," 
whimsically  applied  to  it  by  Egerton  Cas- 
tle. In  his  "English  Book-plates"  he 
says  :  *'  The  mantling  ....  evokes  not, 
as  of  old,  ideas  of  lambrequins  hacked  and 
torn  in  hot  battle,  but  rather  a  vision  of 
the  contemporary  towering,  tumbling,  curly 
Versailles  peruke.  In  fact,  I  have  been 
tempted  to  suggest  the  expression  Periwig 
style  as  appropriate.  It  can  be  safely 
asserted  that  the  typical  triple  rolls  of  den- 
ticulated mantling,  encompassed  a  shield  in 
the  same  manner  as  the  periwig  of  the 
period  encompassed  the  face  of  a  man  of 
rank  ;  is  distinctly  French  in  its  origin  ; 
and  it  is  rather  curious  to  remark  how  the 
'  Restoration '  mantlings  continued  to  flow 
in  foaming  cascades  round  the  escutcheon 
of  book-plates,  so  long  as  the  *  monstrous 
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periwig '  remained  in  fashion  as  a  masculine 
head-dress."*  Towards  the  close  of  the 
seventeenth  century  this  style  gradually 
passed  into  another  form,  known  as  the 
Jacobean,  which  became  a  pronounced 
style  about  1700  and  remained  so  until 
after  1745.  But  in  general  the  purely 
Heraldic  plates  continued  throughout  all 
changes  of  style. 
Jacobean 

Flourished  during  the  first  half  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  This  style  was  stiff 
and  cumbersome  in  general  outlines  and 
reminds  one  of  the  carved  woodwork  of  the 
times  of  Queen  Anne  and  George  I. 

In  the  beginning  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury some  of  the  colleges  had  plates  pre- 
pared, in  which  there  was  neither  helmet 
nor  crest  above  the  escutcheon,  so  that  the 
sides  of  the  shield  were  left  undecorated. 
To  correct  this  an  ornamental  frame  was 
placed  around  their  escutcheons. 

The  earlier  plates  of  the  Queen  Anne 

*  Castle.     "  English  Book-plates."     1894.     p.  67. 

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period  are  all  recognized  by  this  frame. 
Plates  of  the  latter  part  of  the  Jacobean 
period  have  an  additional  external  decora- 
tion in  the  brackets  upon  which  the  shields 
in  their  frames  were  made  to  rest.  Each 
bracket  imitated  the  decoration  of  the 
shield  frame  to  which  it  was  a  support ; 
using  the  scallop-shell,  the  satyr,  the 
demon's  head,  or  the  head  of  a  canephorus, 
as  the  normal  and  constantly  recurring 
ornament. 
Rococo  or  Chippendale 

The  style  of  book-plate  bearing  this  name 
resembles  the  ornate  and  decorative  furni- 
ture which  originated  in  France  and  was 
brought  over  to  England  by  Thomas  Chip- 
pendale many  years  before  he  published 
his  book  on  household  furniture.  Warren 
called  this  style  a  "national"  one  and  con- 
sidered it  as  of  English  origin,  but  both 
Castle  and  Hamilton  have  insisted  that  it 
came  originally  from  France  and  was  called 
'•Chippendale"  because  many  of  the  pat- 
terns in  Chippendale's  book  are  reflected 
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in  the  later  Chippendale  book-plates. 

The  characteristic  of  these  plates  is  a 
frilling  border  of  open  scallop-shell  work 
set  close  to  the  escutcheon  and  more  or  less 
enclosing  it.  Outside  of  this  are  a  series 
of  flourishes  resembling  the  ornaments  on 
the  Chippendale  furniture,  called  by  Chip- 
pendale himself,  "the  new  French  style." 

There  are  several  clearly  defined  differ- 
ences between  Jacobean  and  Chippendale 
plates.  In  the  former  the  two  sides  of  the 
design  are  almost  always  symmetrical ;  in 
the  latter  they  are  rarely  so  :  in  the  former 
the  floral  decorations  are  set  and  in  con- 
ventional festoons  and  garlands  ;  in  the 
latter  the  flowers  are  natural  sprays  and 
branches,  unarranged  and  free  of  any  arbi- 
trary conventionalism  :  in  the  former  the 
shield  is  always  a  regular  figure  ;  in  the 
latter  it  is  frequently  pear-shaped,  oval,  or 
irregular,  and  is  often  broken  into  by  the 
shellwork  of  the  border.  This  style  was 
described  by  Warren,  who  first  named  it, 
as  having  three  periods  :  early  Chippen- 
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dale,  in  which  the  characteristics  were  only 
partially  developed  ;  middle,  or  pure  Chip- 
pendale, when  the  style  reached  its  greatest 
beauty;  and  late,  or  deteriorated  Chippen- 
dale, when  the  natural  gracefulness  of 
Chippendalism  became  a  characterless 
design  of  noticeable  weakness. 

Ribbon  and  Wreath 

This  style  resulted  as  a  reaction  from  the 
deteriorated  Chippendale  that  had  just 
preceded  it.  It  was  simple  and  chaste  and 
emphasized  its  ornamentation  by  an  elegant 
slenderness  and  low  relief.  As  a  style  it 
had  a  short  vogue  and  was  a  general  favor- 
ite only  from  about  1770-1790.  The  fes- 
toons in  these  plates  are  placed  above  the 
shield,  fastened  by  pins  or  rings ;  the 
sprays,  tied  with  a  ribbon,  spring  from  the 
base  upward,  curving  in  sympathy  with  the 
sides  of  the  shield. 

Modtrn  Armorial 

The  name  of  a  very  large  class  of  plates 
in  which  the  design  is  Armorial.     These 
plates  include  reproductions  of  all  other 
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styles  and  forms  of  Heraldic  designs. 
Some  of  them  also  sadly  confuse  dates  and 
styles,  appearing  as  a  pure  Chippendale  in 
design,  but  showing  modern  workmanship, 
or  being  an  exact  duplicate  of  a  plate 
belonging  to  an  individual  who  has  been 
dead  a  century  or  more.  These  plates  are 
not  generally  sought  by  collectors,  and 
only  those  making  special  researches  in  the 
fields  of  genealogy  and  heraldry  attempt 
to  have  more  than  a  fairly  representative 
collection  of  them. 
Henry  IV 

One  of  the  well-known  French  styles  to 
be  found  on  plates  of  about  1589.  Its 
chief  characteristic  is  an  oval  frame,  sur- 
rounded by  a  massive  ornate  cartouche, 
having  mermaids,  angels,  and  human  heads 
worked  into  the  floral  decorations  of  the 
frame,  both  sides  of  which  are  alike,  except 
in  shading. 
XIII 

A  style  that  followed  closely  the  Henry 
IV  and   is  so  similar   to   it   as  to   render 
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classification  most  difficult.     The  essential 
difference  is  that  the  latter  style  is  lighter, 
simpler,  and  not  so  decorative. 
Louis  XIV 

The  third  in  the  chronological  order  of 
styles  of  French  Heraldic.  It  is  one  of 
the  most  pompous  and  ornate  of  all  the 
French  styles.  The  frame  is  broader  and 
includes  as  its  upper  termination  a  large 
shell,  in  which,  in  some  plates  of  this  style, 
there  is  a  beautiful  female  face  or  a  cluster 
of  flowers  and  occasionally  a  canopy  sus- 
pended above  the  face  or  cluster  of  flowers. 
In  general  design  it  follows  the  character- 
istics  of  the  Henry  IV  and  Louis  XIII 

styles. 
R^gence 

A  style  of  plate  that  was  fashionable  in 
France  about  1715  and  for  a  short  time 
after,  representing  a  sudden  reaction  in 
the  patterns  of  plates.  Its  chief  beauty 
lies  in  the  dainty  arabesque  character  of 
the  designs.  As  compared  with  all  earlier 
French  styles  the  R^gence  appears  quite 
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frivolous.  Of  this  style  Hamilton  says : 
"  Little  urns  on  little  brackets  ;  tiny  heads, 
springing  up  from  nowhere  ;  dainty  fes- 
toons trailing  around  and  about  without 
any  definite  aim  in  life,  and  finals  at  top 
and  bottom  which  finish  nothing  because 
nothing  was  commenced."  * 
Louis  XV  or  Rococo 

This  is  the  loveliest  of  all  the  French 
styles.  In  point  of  time  and  general 
characteristics  it  corresponds  to  the  Eng- 
lish Chippendale.  A  pear-shaped,  oval,  or 
irregular  shield,  in  a  frame  of  shellwork  or 
rockwork,  flowers  anywhere  and  every- 
where and  no  two  parts  of  the  design  in 
correspondence.  By  a  rare  piece  of  good 
luck,  this  charming  graceful  style  became 
general  in  France  just  at  the  time  when 
institutions  and  individuals  were  vieing 
with  each  other  to  see  who  could  possess 
the  largest  number  of  "own  plates,"  so 
that  the  total  number  of  specimens  of  this 
lovely  and  charming  style  is  very  large  and 

*  Hamilton.     "  French  Book-plates."     1896.   p.  26. 

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permits    even    quite    small    collections   to 
include  very  fine  specimens  of  it. 
Louis  XVI 

The  Rococo  finally  produced  the  inevita- 
ble reaction,  which  expressed  itself  in  the 
style  known  as  the  Louis  XVI.  This  was 
once  more  formal  and  exact  and  became  a 
clearly  marked  style  about  the  year  1775, 
and  lasted  until  the  time  of  the  French 
Revolution.  Straight  lines  and  well-bal- 
anced parts  took  the  place  of  the  lack  of 
symmetry  noticeable  in  the  style  out  of 
which  it  came.  Shields  are  supported  on 
solid  square  bases  ;  coronets  are  clearly 
and  correctly  drawn ;  and  flowers  are 
securely  and  neatly  arranged  in  well- 
ordered  wreaths  and  festoons. 

By  the  year  1789  all  styles  of  plates 
bearing  symbols  of  nobility  or  rank  had 
disappeared  before  the  fury  of  the  French 
Revolution  and  in  their  place  were  simple 
labels  and  designs  bearing  Republican 
emblems.  From  this  time  until  the  year 
1804,  when  Napoleon,  having  restored  the 
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court,  introduced  the  toque  or  "liberty- 
cap,"  designed  by  his  favorite  artist. 
Monsieur  David,  to  take  the  place  of  the 
crests  and  coronets  of  other  days,  these 
were  the  only  plate-styles  to  be  seen. 

In  the  days  of  Louis  XVIII  an  effort 
was  made  to  restore  to  book-plates  the 
symbols  of  nobility  and  rank,  but  it  was 
unsuccessful.  Armorial  plates  in  any 
style  were  never  again  fashionable  in 
France.  In  recent  times  all  the  celebri- 
ties of  that  country  have  chosen  the  styles 
of  their  plates  from  one  or  the  other  of  the 
types  of  Pictorial  plates. 
Allegories 

The  favorite  form  of  Pictorial  plates. 
Has  been  successfully  used  more  by  the 
French  nation  than  by  any  other  people. 
It  is  the  natural  development  of  the  Jaco- 
bean and  Chippendale  styles,  where 
cherubs,  angels,  mermaids,  satyrs,  shep- 
herdesses and  beautiful  women  were  used 
to  give  the  element  of  irregularity  to  the 
set  design.  By  an  easy  transition  these 
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figures  assumed  the  chief  role  and  became 
not  simply  artistic  decorations,  but  animate 
living  representatives  of  allegory. 

Biographical 

A  style  of  plates  in  which  the  refer- 
ences to  the  life  history  of  the  owner  are 
especially  emphasized.  Many  specimens 
show  the  birthplace,  childhood  scenes,  and 
family  heirlooms. 

Book- piles 

A  common  feature  in  many  plates.  As 
a  style  the  Book-piles  belong  chiefly  to  the 
book-plates  of  English  and  American 
artists.  Only  a  few  examples  are  to  be 
found  among  other  nationalities.  The 
style  has  been  in  use  since  1699.  The  pile 
is  arranged  in  three  compact  rows.  There 
is  little  variety  to  this  style. 

Dfcorative 

A  variety  of  plate  having  for  its  end  the 
creation  of  a  simple  name-label  of  a  highly 
decorative  character,  without  any  reference 
in  any  way  to  the  personality  of  the  indi- 
vidual whose  name  it  bears.  It  is  fash- 
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ioned    after    the    manner    of    decorative 
designs  for  other  purposes. 
Ecclesiastic 

Remembering  that  literature  and  learn- 
ing have  always  been  the  special  heritage 
of  the  church  in  all  ages  and  all  countries, 
it  is  to  be  expected  that  a  style  of  plates 
should  have  been  formed  by  the  universal 
acceptance  of  certain  characteristics  as 
suitable  for  the  book-plates  used  to  mark 
the  libraries  of  monasteries,  cathedrals,  and 
church  dignitaries.  Ecclesiastic  plates  are 
very  numerous  and  very  beautiful.  Their 
chief  characteristics  are  their  large  size, 
elaborateness,  and  the  adding  of  the  insig- 
nia of  the  church  to  the  family  arms.  In 
general  the  Ecclesiastic  style  is  based  on 
the  head-dresses  of  the  hierarchy  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church,  as  follows  : 

Cardinal. — A  red  hat,  with  a  wide  flat  brim,  on 
each  side  of  which  is  a  red  cord,  terminating 
in  a  cluster  of  five  rows  of  red  tassels. 

Archbishop. — A  similarly  shaped  hat,  bnt  green  in 
color  and  having  only  fonr  rows  of  green 
tassels,  which  hang  at  the  ends  of  a  green  cord. 

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Bishop. — Same  as  archbishop,  but  with  only  three 
rows  of  green  tassels. 
»  AbM  or  Abbot. — Same  hat,  only  black  and  with 

black  cord  and  two  rows  of  black  tassels. 
Imaginary 

This  is  the  most  fantastic  of  all  styles  of 
book-plates,  since  it  is  employed  to  describe, 
not  plates  which  have  actually  been  used, 
but  plates  designed  to  exhibit  what  kind 
of  a  plate  certain  individuals  should  have 
used. 

Mr.  Hopson's  Imaginary  plate  of  Adam, 
showing  an  Armorial  design  made  of  an 
apple  and  a  fig  leaf,  while  the  accessories 
of  the  usual  plate  are  supplied  by  fanciful 
delineations  of  his  companions  in  the  Gar- 
den of  Eden,  is  one  of  the  cleverest  of  this 
type.  In  the  use  of  this  style  our  artistic 
neighbors,  the  French,  outrank  all  others. 
In  a  charming  little  journal  entitled  "  Ex- 
Libris  Imaginaires,"  edited  by  L.  Joly, 
and  issued  from  Paris,  this  style  of  book- 
plate has  been  chiefly  exploited. 
Landscape 

Usually     seen    in     combination     with 
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Armorial  designs,  but  also  existing  as  a 
pure  type.  Thomas  Bewick  and  his 
brother  are  best  known  as  the  exponents 
of  this  style  of  plates.  The  landscapes 
were  both  imaginary  and  real  localities. 
Among  the  latter  are  views  of  Hereford, 
Newcastle,  Tower  of  St.  Nicholas  Church, 
Tower  of  London,  and  the  scenes  connected 
with  historical  events. 

Legal 

Plates  containing  the  usual  symbols  of 
the  legal  profession,  such  as  the  Scales  of 
Justice,  the  Sword  of  Damocles,  the  blind- 
fold impersonation  of  the  Law,  and  other 
features  similar  in  character. 

Library  Interiors 

A  very  common  and  a  very  popular  style 
of  Pictorial  plate.  There  is  an  apparent 
fitness  in  including  in  the  decoration  of  the 
plate  a  view  of  the  library  in  which  it  is 
to  be  used.  This  style  lends  itself  to  end- 
less variety,  presenting  cozy  corners,  study 
windows,  through  which  are  seen  inspiring 
glimpses  of  romantic  scenery.  This  style 
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is  both  ancient  and  modern  and  is  to  be 
found  among  the  book-plates  of  every 
nation. 

Literary 

Designs  containing  books,  bookcases, 
or  literary  references  are  classed  as  Liter- 
ary plates.  This  style  is  the  least  definite 
of  all  the  styles  and  includes  a  large  num- 
ber of  incongruous  designs,  of  disorderly 
piles  of  manuscript  or  discouraged  rows  of 
books.  Here  again  we  must  go  to  the 
French  book-plates  to  see  this  style  in 
anything  like  completeness  of  thought  and 
execution. 

Medical 

Like  Legal  plates,  a  style  employed  to 
indicate  a  professional  connection.  A  uni- 
versal feature  of  this  type  is  the  serpent 
and  the  cup.  An  unpleasant  form  is  found 
in  a  modern  realistic  plate,  where  the 
ancient  form  of  "  Doct.  Med."  has  given 
place  to  ghastly  views  of  dead  bodies,  dis- 
secting rooms,  vivisection  clinics,  and  sick- 
rooms, where  suffering  friends  are  bidding 
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the  patient  farewell.  Considering  the 
repetition  of  plates  in  the  books  of  one 
library,  one  can  imagine  there  might  be 
times  when  even  an  enthusiastic  medical 
man  might  fail  to  find  in  such  a  plate  either 
a  pleasant  memory  or  a  mental  inspiration. 

Quite  an  ideal  Medical  plate  is  to  be 
found  in  the  dainty  and  exquisitely  exe- 
cuted plate  of  Dr.  F.  Bargall6,  of  Paris. 
Here  we  have  evil  books  symbolized  by 
the  serpent ;  useless  books  by  the  opiate 
sleep  of  the  poppy  ;  while  good  books  cure 
mind  and  spirit  with  the  skill  of  a  great 
physician. 
Monogram 

As  the  name  indicates,  this  style  consists 
of  a  monogrammic  expression  of  the  owner's 
name.  It  has  many  forms,  ranging  from  a 
simple  monogram  to  the  most  elaborate 
and  decorative  design.  A  pleasing  exam- 
ple of  this  style  of  plate  is  the  ex-libris  of 
the  late  Augustin  Daly. 
Musical 

A    style    used    to    classify    all    plates 
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belonging  to  musicians  or  lovers  of  music. 
These    plates    contain  the   usual  musical 
instruments. 
Portraits 

As  a  rule  not  a  very  difficult  plate  to 
identify.  This  style  is  both  ancient  and 
modem.  The  earliest  dated  German  book- 
plate, Bilibald  Pirckheimer,  by  Albrecht 
DUrer,  is  a  Portrait  plate,  as  is  also  the 
famous  plate  of  Johannes  Vennitzer,  who 
died  in  1627,  and  the  curious  Flemish 
plate  of  Louis  Bosch,  about  1765,  as  well 
as  the  dainty  Italian  plate  of  Filippo 
Linarti,  dated  1760.  In  modern  times, 
though  the  style  is  seldom  used,  some  good 
examples  exist.  One  that  is  especially 
worthy  of  mention  is  the  Portrait  plate 
of  James  Ward.  This,  in  reality,  is  a  happy 
combination  of  three  styles  of  ex-libris.  It 
is  at  once  a  Library  Interior,  a  Portrait, 
and  an  Emblematic  plate.  It  was  designed 
by  George  Hodgson,  a  prominent  member 
of  the  Nottingham  Society  of  Artists,  whose 
drawings  and  water-colors  are  frequently 
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BOOK-PLATE  SOCIETIES 

seen  at  the  exhibitions  of  the  Royal  Acad- 
emy.    Mr.  Ward  has  the  finest  collection 
in  existence  of  book-plates  of  Nottingham- 
shire families. 
Printers'  Marks 

A  mark  used  by  the  printer  to  stamp  the 
work  as  his.  In  a  very  real  sense  an  ex-li- 
bris, since  the  book  belongs  to  its  maker  in 
an  ownership  that  purchase  can  not  destroy. 
Among  the  most  famous  Printers'  Marks 
are  those  of  Johann  Fust  (Faust),  the 
partner  of  Gutenberg  ;  the  Westminster 
Press  of  William  Caxton  ;  the  Strawberry 
Hill  Press  of  Horace  Walpole  ;  the  Chis- 
wick  Press  of  London  ;  and  the  Press 
Marks  of  Cambridge  and  Oxford  Univer- 
sities. 

Most  of  the  well-known  printing  firms 
and  private  presses  of  to-day  have  their 
marks.  One  of  the  most  beautiful  of  these 
is  the  mark  devised  by  Mr.  Vedder  for  the 
Riverside  Press,  representing  a  beautiful 
boy  lying  on  the  bank  of  a  river,  into 
which  he  is  launching  small  paper  boats. 
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At  the  bottom  of  the  plate  is  the  scroll 
bearing  the  inscription,  "The  Riverside 
Press,"  and  above  the  motto,  "Tout  bien 
ou  rien."  This  Press  has  also  another 
mark,  reserved  for  its  choice  books, 
designed  by  Sidney  L.  Smith  in  1885.  It, 
too,  is  a  river  scene,  showing  a  piper 
charming  down  the  stream  a  group  of  small 
paper  boats,  each  bearing  a  tiny  Lamp  of 
Truth.  The  rising  sun  has  been  facetiously 
interpreted  by  a  wit  to  refer  to  the  fact 
that  the  firm  has  risen  early  to  catch  the 
literary  worm. 
Rebus 

One  of  the  most  ancient  styles  of  book- 
plates. The  use  of  a  picture  to  represent  a 
word  of  similar  sound  but  dissimilar  mean- 
ing. The  fine  plate  of  the  Comtesse  Nog, 
representing  the  prehistoric  Ark  of  Noah, 
of  Bible  lore  ;  the  plate  of  H.  Ashbee,  on 
which  is  depicted  an  ash  tree  and  a  bee  ; 
the  ex-libris  of  Louis  Vacher,  showing  a 
cow  on  the  shield  ;  and  the  plate  of  Paul 
Cordier,  with  its  charming  little  vignette 
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CLASSIFICATION  AND   ARKANGEMENT 


of  a  rope-maker  (cordier)  at  work,  are  all 
well-known  to  collectors. 


Seals 


A  variety  of  plate  essentially  Heraldic 
in  form.  A  style  often  used  by  public 
libraries  and  educational  institutions,  as 
well  as  by  individuals.  Engravers  of  this 
style  of  plate  have  a  great  advantage  in 
being  able  to  copy  designs  from  the  great 
seals  of  history. 
Symbolic  and  Emblematic 

A  style  similar  to  Allegories,  but  with 
the  difference  that  the  allusions  are  not 
allegoric,  but  emblematic. 
Urns 

The  style  that  resulted  from  the  Ribbon 
and  Wreath,  in  vogue  from  about  1800- 
1820.  It  is  an  ugly  and  graceless  style, 
having  as  its  central  figure  a  monumental 
funeral  urn,  and  abounding  in  weeping 
willows  and  scantily  clad  females. 
Vignettes 

The  same  as  Landscape. 
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ABBANGEMENT 

The  proper  arrangement  of  plates  in  a  col- 
lection must  always  be  determined  in  direct 
sympathy  with  the  object  for  which  the  collec- 
tion is  made. 

Many  individuals  collect  book-plates  because 
of  their  interest  in  genealogy  and  heraldry  : 
others  for  the  value  of  the  designs  and  to  illus- 
trate the  method  of  treatment  from  an  artistic 
standpoint ;  still  others  to  understand  the  work 
of  certain  artists  or  the  peculiarities  of  nation- 
ality :  or  a  number  of  other  reasons.  In  each 
case  the  best  arrangement  is  that  one  which 
will  group  the  plates  by  the  subject  that  is  the 
specialty. 

Among  the  usual  systems  seen  in  use  are 
the  following  : 

1  Loose  in  boxes  or  in  envelopes 

2  Arranged  on  the  leaves  of  an  album 

3  On  separate  mounts  in  book-plate  boxes 

a  Alphabetically,  by  the  owners  who  used  them, 
b  Alphabetically,  by  the  artists  who  made  them, 
c  Alphabetically,  by  country  ;  then   chronolog- 
ically, by  dates. 
d  Chronologically,  by  styles. 

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CLASSIFICATION  AND   ARRANGEMENT 

For  public  library  collections,  like  the  Brit- 
ish Museum,  experience  seems  to  prove  that  a 
simple  alphabetical  arrangement  of  all  plates  of 
all  countries  and  all  ages  is  the  best  to  promote 
rapid  research  and  comparison. 

The  author's  collection  is  mounted  on  sepa- 
rate mounts  of  manila  paper,  XXX  quality,  in 
size  six  by  eight  inches.  These  are  arranged 
in  boxes  made  to  order  and  opening  on  the 
diagonal  of  the  oblong,  so  as  to  permit  of  con- 
sulting the  specimens  as  the  cards  in  a  card 
catalogue  are  used,  without  removing  any  of 
the  mounts  to  examine  others.  Experience  has 
proved  that  book-plates  wear  better  if  the 
mounts  rest  on  the  lower  edge  than  when  plates 
have  to  be  piled  one  upon  the  other  ;  they  are 
always  all  easily  accessible  and  take  up  very 
much  less  room.  The  boxes  are  made  one  foot 
long,  which  will  accommodate  a  thousand 
mounted  plates,  one  plate  only  being  pasted  on 
each  card.  After  trying  in  turn  each  one  of 
the  methods  explained  in  the  issues  of  the  Ex 
Libris  Journal  and  finding  none  exactly  right 
for  personal  needs,  this  system  was  slowly 
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CONCERNING   BOOK-PLATES 

worked  out  and  has  been  such  a  relief  in  its 
freedom  from  bulk  and  in  the  accessibility  of 
specimens,  that  it  is  noticed  here  in  the  hope 
that  it  may  prove  equally  valuable  to  some 
brother  or  sister  collector.  The  collection  in 
this  card  catalogue  form  is  arranged  alphabet- 
ically by  countries  and  alphabetically  by  artists 
under  each  country.  There  is  also  a  card  cata- 
logue to  the  collection,  arranged  in  a  simple 
alphabetical  list  by  owners  of  plates. 


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CHAPTER  VI 

BOOK-PLATE  ASSOCIATIONS,  CLUBS,  AND  SOCIETIES 

"  He  who  would  learn  without  the  aid  of  books, 
Draws  water  in  a  sieve  from  running  brooks." 
Translation  of  the  motto  on  Seyringer's  book-plate. 

The  most  valuable  aid  the  collector  can 
secure  for  the  identification  of  plates,  the 
exchange  of  duplicates,  and  the  placing  of  per- 
sonal plates  where  they  will  be  valued  and 
appreciated,  comes  from  the  publications  of  the 
book-plate  associations,  clubs  and  societies. 

To  own  these  files  is  to  have  a  reference 
library  of  more  real  working  value  than  any 
other  collection  of  books  on  this  subject  that 
could  be  selected.  The  following  list  gives  the 
book-plate  organizations  at  present  in  existence. 
Book- Plate  Exchange  Club,  Edinburgh,  Scotland. 

As  sending  packages  across  the  ocean 
involves  expensive  postage  and  tiresome 
delay,  the  membership  of  this  club  is  lim- 
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OONOEBNING   BOOK-PLATES       - 

ited  to  Great  Britain.  The  object  of  the 
club  is  to  establish  a  clearing  house,  where 
duplicates  can  be  exchanged.  The  method 
of  exchange  is  in  reality  a  purchase,  as 
each  member  marks  the  price  on  his  plates 
and  selects  an  equivalent  value  from 
among  the  marked  specimens  of  the  other 
members.  The  General  Secretary  is  J. 
Henderson  Smith,  of  Edinburgh. 
Ex  LIbris-Club  "Basilea."*     Basle,  Switzerland. 

This  club  exists  for  the  purpose  of  good 
fellowship  among  the  members  and  to 
afford  a  medium  for  the  exchange  of  dupli- 
cate plates  between  members.  Each  newly 
elected  member  receives,  as  a  receipt  for 
the  entrance  fees,  a  beautiful  illuminated 
membership  diploma,  designed  by  Fritz 
Amberger.  The  transactions  of  the  club 
are    published    in   the     "  Schweizerische 

*  As  there  seems  to  be  no  uniformity  among  either 
societies  or  collectors  in  regard  to  the  writing  of  this 
term,  we  have  established  the  form  "ex-libris"  for 
all  publications  of  the  Wisteria  Cottage  Press,  and 
copy  as  far  as  possible  the  forms  used  in  other  pub- 
lications whenever  making  reference  to  them. 

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BOOK-PLATE  SOCIETIES 

Blatter  ftir  Ex-Libris  Sammler,"  as  are 
also  the  lists  of  membership.  The  entrance 
fee  is  5  fr. ;  the  subscription  price  for  the 
journal  4  fr.  for  Switzerland,  4.50  fr.  for 
other  countries.  The  president,  secretary, 
and  treasurer  must  be  residents  of  Swit- 
zerland, but  in  case  there  are  at  least  five 
members  from  any  other  nation,  one  of 
them  may  be  chosen  as  vice  president. 
The  French  people  have  shown  special 
appreciation  of  the  beautiful  ex-libris  pro- 
duced by  Switzerland.  When  the  Swiss 
organization  was  formed  many  Frenchmen 
became  members.  In  accordance  with  the 
above  regulation  Edmond  des  Robert,  of 
Nancy,  France,  was  made  one  of  the  vice 
presidents. 

At  the  dissolution  of  the  club  all  paya- 
ble balances,  all  cash  on  hand,  and  all  col- 
lections are  to  become  the  property  of  the 
Schweizerischen  Heraldischen  Gesellschaf  t. 

The   ojficers  are :    President,   Emanuel 
Stickelberger  ;  Treasurer,  Eugen  Faesch  ; 
Secretary,  Friedrich  Haller. 
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CONCERNING   BOOK-PLATES 
Ex  Libris  Society,*  London,  England. 

Founded  in  1891  and  having  the  honor 
of  being  the  first  society  ever  formed  for 
the  encouragement  and  study  of  book- 
plates. It  publishes  a  monthly  magazine 
entitled :  "  Journal  of  the  Ex  Libris 
Society,"  which  is  popularly  known  as  the 
"Ex  Libris  Journal."     The  annual  mem- 

*  It  has  been  impossible  to  find  any  uniform  writ- 
ing of  this  term  in  connection  with  this  society's 
publications.  ^^  Ex-Libris"  18  the  form  used  in  the 
lettering  on  the  back  of  the  cloth  bindings  of  vol- 
umes 1-13,  on  the  central  illustration  of  the  front 
cover  of  the  paper  binding  of  the  current  monthly 
issues,  and  on  the  publishers'  press-mark  on  the  title- 
page  of  volumes  1  and  2.  Indeed  this  press-mark  is 
an  amusing  demonstration  of  the  lack  of  uniformity 
on  the  part  of  the  society  in  the  use  of  this  term. 
This  press-mark  is  an  illustration  of  an  open  book, 
on  the  title-page  of  which  is  printed  "  Ex-Libris  Jour- 
nal" ;  the  first  leaf  of  the  book  is  curled  to  show  the 
lettering  ^^Published/or  the  Ex  lAbris  Society  of  London 
by  A.  and  C.  Black"  This  press-mark  is  replaced 
in  volumes  3-13  by  the  design  made  for  the  society 
by  Mr.  Sherborn.  In  this  is  seen  the  form  "JSJa; 
Libris  Society."  This  latter  is  also  the  form  used  on 
the  title-page,  running  title,  and  on  the  front  cloth 
cover  of  the  Journal  from  volumes  1-13. 

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BOOK-PLATE  SOCIETIES 


bership  fee  is  .£1  Is,  but  from  members 
who  joined  before  1897  the  fee  of  10s.  6d. 
is  required.  The  entrance  fee  is  10s.  6d. 
The  journal  is  supplied  to  members  free. 
Americans  especially  appreciate  the  cour- 
tesy extended  to  them  by  the  appointment, 
as  Honorable  Vice  President,  of  Charles 
Dexter  Allen,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
who,  although  no  longer  a  collector  of 
book-plates,  having  sold  two  large  collec- 
tions, still  retains  his  interest  in  the  sub- 
ject and  reports,  in  the  department  of 
"American  Notes,"  items  concerning 
American  artists  and  owners  of  plates. 

The  officers  of  the  society  are  as  follows  : 
President,  Sir  James  Balfour  Paul ;  Treas- 
urer, James  T.  Armstrong ;  Secretary,  W. 
H.  K.  Wright. 
Exiibris-Verein,  Berlin,  Oermany. 

This  society  and  its  handsome  publica- 
tion, "  Exlibris-Zeitschrift "  were  both 
organized  and  founded  by  the  late  Fried- 
rich  Wamecke,  in  May,  1891.  Before  the 
end  of  the  second  year  the  society  had 
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sixty-one  members,  and  now  its  member- 
ship is  over  three  hundred,  including  rep- 
resentatives from  many  countries.  Its 
journal  is  most  artistic  and  accurate  ;  gives 
representations  of  both  ancient  and  modern 
plates  and  contains  many  valuable  articles 
on  the  various  phases  of  the  subject.  It  is 
eagerly  read  by  collectors  everywhere  and 
is  a  most  valuable  j&le  for  reference.  The 
early  volumes  are  now  out  of  print  and 
can  be  obtained  only  through  the  sale  of 
sets  in  private  libraries.  The  membership 
fee  is  12  mk.,  which  includes  the  journal, 
furnished  free  to  members.  The  officers 
are  as  follows :  President,  E.  Doepler ; 
Treasurer,  C.  A.  Starke  ;  Secretary,  H. 
Brendicke. 
Oesterreichische  Ex-Libris-Geselischaft,  Yienna,  Austria. 

This  is  the  youngest  of  the  societies, 
having  been  organized  January  24,  1903. 
It  aims  to  encourage  the  use  of  book-plates, 
to  exploit  the  artists  who  work  in  this 
field,  and  to  promote  good  fellowship 
among  its  members.  The  annual  fee  is 
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BOOK-PLATE  SOCIETIES 

K.  10.  The  members  have  a  vote  in  the 
monthly  meetings,  the  use  of  the  library 
of  the  association,  including  the  collection 
of  book-plates,  and  may  have  free  access  to 
the  list  of  addresses,  for  purposes  of 
exchanging  duplicates.  The  place  of 
meeting  of  the  association  is  in  the  palace 
of  the  K.  K.  Landwirtschafts  Gesellschaft. 
The  Secretary  is  Karl  Andorfer. 

Soci^t€    Franpaise    des    Collectionneurs    d'Ex>Libris,    Paris, 
France. 

The  enthusiasm  and  energy  of  Doctor 
L.  Bouland  resulted  in  the  founding  of 
this  society,  April  30,  1893.  The  consti- 
tution limits  the  membership  to  men  and 
women  over  twenty  years  of  age,  and 
requires  the  recommendation  of  a  special 
committee  on  membership  before  the  indi- 
vidual can  be  duly  elected.  A  member's 
name  may  be  dropped  from  the  rolls  on 
the  report  of  the  committee,  if  the  recom- 
mendation receives  a  majority  vote  of 
approval.  The  society  has  a  monthly 
journal  entitled,  "Archives  de  la  Soci4.t6 
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CONCERNING   BOOK-PLATES 

Fran^aise  des  Collectionneursd'Ex-Libris," 
the  largest  and  most  comprehensive  of  all 
the  ex-libris  periodicals.  It  is  handsomely 
illustrated  and  of  the  greatest  assistance  to 
any  collector  of  French  plates.  This  jour- 
nal is  free  to  all  members.  The  annual 
membership  fee  is  16.50  fr. 

The  officers  are  as  follows  :  President, 
L.  Bouland  ;  Treasurer,  J.  Regnault  ;  Sec- 
retary, F.  Careme. 


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CHAPTER  VII 

SOME    INSTITUTIONS    AND    INDIVIDUALS     MAKING 
COLLECTIONS  OF  BOOK-PLATES 


"  The  collecting  of  ex-libris  has  preserved  many  inter- 
esting examples  which  would  naturally  every  year  be  lost 
or  destroyed  in  the  re-binding  by  ignorant  workmen  who 
have  no  knowledge  of  their  value,  or  which  are  concealed 
or  lost  under  later  ex-libris  pasted  above  them." 

Laurence  Hutton.     "Some  American  Book-plates." 

In  making  a  collection  of  book-plates  indi- 
viduals not  infrequently  request  an  exchange  of 
plates  from  those  who  are  unwilling  to  extend 
such  a  courtesy.  No  collector  desires  to  annoy 
any  one  to  whom  such  a  request  would  be 
unwelcome.  In  general  it  is  safe  to  assume 
that  members  of  book-plate  organizations  desire 
to  exchange  with  their  own  members.  If  this 
list  will  save  any  one  from  a  rebuff,  resulting 
from  having  asked  the  wrong  person,  the  author 
will  feel  repaid  for  the  labor  of  making  it. 
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OONOEBNING    BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


Adams,  Frances  A. 

Advielle,  Victor 
Amberger,  Fritz 
Archiv  der  f reien  und 
Hansestadt 

Armstrong,  James  T. 

Bachrouschine,  A.  P. 

Baer,  Frank  House 
■"    Bailey,  Sir  W;  H. 

Bargalld,  F. 

Barker,  Mrs.  R. 

Bates,  Arlo 

Beauchamp,  Pierre  de 

Bednall,  William  T. 

Benkard,  Rudolph 
•     B^ringuier,  Dr.  R. 

-^-  Beran,  Paul 

Bibliothek  des  KOnigl. 

Kunstgewerbe-Mu- 

seums 
Bisbee,  Marvin  D. 
-  Blackwell,  Henry 

4.  Bliss,  Caroline  S. 
Bojnici6,  Dr.  I. 


465  Madison  Ave.,  New  York  City, 

N.  Y. 
28  Passage  Dauphine,  Paris,  Fr. 
12  Sihlhofstrasse,  Zurich,  Swit. 
Care  Dr.  A.  Hagedorn,  Hamburg, 
Ger. 

Moorgate  Station  Chambers,  Lon- 
don, E.  C,  Eng. 

Moscow,  Russia. 

Rowfant  Club,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Sale  Hall,  Sale,  Cheshire,  Eng. 

94  rue  d'Allemagne,  Paris,  Fr. 

Tiverton,  R.  I. 

4  Otis  Place,  Boston,  Mass. 

84  rue  Judalque,  Bordeaux,  Fr. 

Adelaide,  South  Australia 

39  blvd.  de  la  Chapelle,  Paris,  Fr. 

21  Nettelbeckstrasse,  Berlin,  W.,  62, 
Ger. 

64  Avenue  Road,  Regent's  Park, 
London,  N.W.,  Eng. 

Berlin,  Germany 


Hanover,  N.  H. 

University  Place,  New  York  City, 

N.  Y. 
46  Cooke  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Agram,  Croatia,  Ans. 

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COLLECTIONS   OF    BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBEB 

WHEN 

SUB- 

ABBANOED 

QENEBAIi 

OF 

EXCHANGES 

PLATES 

BEGUN 

OOIiliEOTIONS 

BY 

DESIBED 

300 

1900 

Artists 

No 

1,000 

1860 

Styles 

Yes 

4,500 

1896 

Swiss 

Numbers 

(( 



1897 

Institutions 

ti 

6,000 

1890 

Swedish 



t( 

3,000 

1900 

(t 

None 

(( 

250 

1895 

(( 

C( 



1894 

(( 

Alphabet 

(( 

10,420 

1879 

it 

u 

« 

500 

1890 

Alphabet 

— 

1898 

Armorial 

Yes 

1,200 

1858 

(( 

(( 

12,000 

1880 

None 

Artists 

(1 

3,500 

1883 

u 

Alphabet 

(( 

1898 

None 

No  plan 

(1 

5,000 

1894 

Styles 

No 

125 

1890 

.0,000 

1877 

600 

1901 

2,000 

1901 

Old 


None 


177 


Alphabet 


Yes 


CONCERNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


Bouvenne,  Aglatis 


24  rue  Cormeille,  Levallois-Perret, 
Paris,  Fr. 


1  Schwerin8tra8se,Berlin,W.,  30,Ger. 
58  rue  Pierre  Charron,  8me,  Paris, 

Fr. 
London,  Eng. 

517  W.  Marshall  St.,  Richmond,  Va. 
9  Park  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
4:4   Tregunter  Road,  So.  Kensing- 
ton, S.  W.,  Eng. 
4-  Browning,  Frances  E.     St.  Katherine's  Hall,  Davenport,  la. 
4.  Buck,  J.fH.  49  N.  Eighth  Ave.,  Monnt  Vernon, 

i^^  N.  Y. 

^    Bnrohard,  Dr.  Georg       64    Stephanienstrasse,     Karlsruhe, 

Baden,  Ger. 
Burnham,    Katharine     Orange,  Cal. 


Brendioke,  Dr.  Hans 
Brettauer,  Valerie 

British  Museum* 
Brook,  Robert  A. 
Brown,  Frank  C. 
Brown,  James  R. 


4  Butler,  T.  K.  L. 

Butterfield,  W.  A. 

Carey,  Edith  F. 
^    Carlander,  Carl  M. 
I     Carlshausen,  Ritten 
meister  von 

Carnegie,  Mrs.  T.  ^ 


London  Institution,  Finsbury  Cir- 
cus, London,  E.  C,  Eng. 
28  Akron  St.,  Roxbury,  Mass. 
Le  Vallon,  Guernsey,  Eng. 
Stockholm,  Sweden 
27  Schillerstrasse,  Stuttgart,  Ger. 


Dungeness,  Cumberland  Isl.,  Ga. 
Catholic  University  of    Washington,  D.  C. 

America 
Cattle,  Frederic  Ravenswood,  Heanor,  Derbyshire, 

Eng. 
*  The  largest  collection  in  the  world.    Seventy  thousand 
of  these  plates  are  on  exhibit  in  the  Print  department, 

178 


COLLECTIONS   OF    BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBBB 

WHEN 

SUB- 

AEBANGBD 

OENEBAIi 

OF 

EXCHANGES 

PLATES 

BEGUN 

OOIiliEOTIONS 

BY 

DESIBED 

2,000 

1892 

None 

Alphabet 

Yes 

5,000 

1893 

Portrait 

Nations 

«( 

5,000 

1898 

Modern 

Alphabet 

(( 

200,000 

1885 

None 

Alphabet 

No 

1,000 

1863 

(( 

Yes 

300 

1896 

(( 

Designers 

(( 

40,000 

1870 

Pictorial 

Alphabet 

No 

250 

1899 

None 

Nations 

Yes 

500 

(( 

3,000       1901       None 


Alphabet 


500 

1900 

Alphabet 

Yes 

150 

1902 

Butler 

Styles 

(( 

5,000 

1893 

Authors 

Artists 

(( 

1896 

Channel  Isls. 

Genealogy 

No 

2,000 

1886 

None 

Yes 

6,000 

1897 

(( 

Styles 

t( 

400 

None 

(( 

150 

1902 

Alphabet 

(( 

4,750 

1896 

Amer.,  Chip. 

Alphabet 

No 

the  remainder,  among  which  are  many  rare  specimens,  are 
in  books  in  the  Library. 

179 


OONCEBNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


Chamberlayne,  Emma 
Chauss^,  Alcide 
Cincinnati      Museum 

Association 
Clark,  Dr.  Arthur  W. 
Clearwater,  Judge  A. 
Clulow,  George 

Clute,  Beulah  Mitchell 
Columbia  Univ.  Lib. 
Cooney,  Ellen  Jeanette 
Corning,  John  H. 
Corput,     Dr.    B.     E. 

Van  den 
Cosgrave,  MacDowel 
Coudenhove,  Countess 

Ernestine 
Crauzat,  P.  de 

Curtis,  Dr.  William  K. 
Cushing,  Angeline 
Darlington,  Rev.  J.  H. 
Dartmouth  College 
Dassel,  Otto  von 
Day,  Robert 
Deats,  Hiram  E. 
Delion,  Frederic 

Dillman,  Eduard 


I  Chesham  Place,  London,  Eng. 
P.  O.  Box  259,  Montreal,  Can. 
Cincinnati,  Ohio 

Lawrence,  Kan.  ''  T^*"^ 

316   Albany  Ave.,  Kingston,  N.  Y. 

51  Belsize  Ave.,  Hampstead,  Lon- 
don, N.  W.,  Eng. 

Park  Ridge,  111. 

New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

500  T.  St.,N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  0. 

Washington,  D.  C. 

21  ave.  de  la  Toison  d'Or,  Brussels, 
Bel. 

5  Gardiner's  Row,  Dublin,  Ir. 

Zseliz,  Barser  Comitat,  Hung. 

62    rue    de    la    Tour-d'Auvergne, 

Paris,  Fr. 
Canterbury,  Kent,  Eng. 
18  Wanalancit  St.,  Lowell,  Mass. 
481  Bedford  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Hanover,  N.  H. 

II  Alaunstrasse,  Dresden,  Ger. 
Myrtle  Hill,  Cork,  Ir. 
Flemington,  N.  J. 

23     Wallstrasse,     Charlottenbnrg, 

near  Berlin,  Ger. 
4    Eisenbahngasse,    Korneuburg, 

Aus. 

180 


COLLECTIONS   OF    BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBEB 

WHKN 

SUB- 

ABBANQBD 

QENSBAIi 

OF 

EXOHANOES 

PIiATES 

BEGUN 

OOIiLEOTIONS 

BY 

DESIBED 

8,080 

1878 

Ladies 

Alphabet 

No 

600 

1903 

None 

No  plan 

Yes 

416 

1900 

Modern 

Alphabet 

(( 

2,602 

1900 

Alphabet 

i( 

1,200 

1895 

Authors 

Artists 

No 

3,000 

1865 

Tes 

350 

1898 

Styles 

ti 

3,000 

1899 

American 

Alphabet 

i( 

1902 

None 

Dates 

H 

1889 

Styles 

<i 

Medical 

Artists 



1,200 

1897 

Modern,  Med. 

Yes 

3,000 

1894 

Ecclesiastic 

Countries 

(i 

6,000 

1894 

Genealogy 

ti 

6,000 

1875 

None 

« 

360 

1901 

« 

Artists 

No 

1900 

(i 

200 

1890 



Yes 

300 

1893 

Armorial 

(( 

10,000 

1860 

(( 

Styles 

(( 

10,000 

1889 

New  Jersey 

Am 

1,000 

1897 

None 

Yes 

6,000 

1900 

Monasteries 

Artists 

« 

181 


CONCERNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


Diodati-Eynard,  Mme. 
La  Comtesse 
"^    Dixson,  Zella  Allen 
■    Dodge,  Pickering 
Dor,  Pierre 
Dorey,  Matthew 
Downes,  Mary  L.  S. 

■4-  Downing,  William 

■^    Drobner,  Gustav 
Drogheda,  Countess  of 
Duhme,  Ophelia  F. 
Ehrhardt,  Georg 
Eisenhart,  August  von 
Elwood,  George  M. 
Emslie,  J.  P. 

Eno,  Dr.H.  C. 
Evans,  Rev.  George 
Ewers,  Dr.  Hanis  H. 

4-   Fisher,  William  E. 
Flint,  Mrs.  Alonzo 
Frankfort  Stadt-bibli- 
othek 

4  French,  Dr.  Samuel  vs/- 
Furman,  Dorothy 
Gaisberg-Schdckin- 

gen,  F.  von 
Gardner  A.  Sage  Lib. 


4  rue  Eynard,  Geneva,  Swit. 

• 

University  of  Chicago,  Chicago,  111. 

2025  G.  St.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

3  Arcole,  Marseilles,  Fr. 

28  Sandymount  Road,  Dublin,  Ir. 

484  Elmwood  Ave.,  Providence, 
R.  L 

Kineton  Cottage,  Olton,  Birming- 
ham, Eng. 

6  Elsasserstrasse,  Leipsic,  Ger. 

Moore  Abbey,  Monasterevan,  Ir. 

3892   Clifton  Ave.,  Clifton,  O. 

21  Ermelstrasse,  Dresden,  Ger. 

25   Karlstrasse,   Munich,    Ger. 

Rochester,  N.  Y. 

50  Kestrel  Ave.,  Heme  Hill,  Lon- 
don, Eng. 

Saugatuck,  Conn. 

Tan-y-bryn,  Aberystwith,  Eng. 

Diisseldorf,  Ger. 

Fargo,  N.  D. 

122  Waterman  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Frankfort-on-Main,  Ger. 

Milwaukee,  Wis. 

58  Clark  St.,  Glen  Ridge,  N.  J. 

SchOckingen,   oberamt     Leonberg 

in  Wtlrtemberg,  Ger. 
New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 

182 


COLLECTIONS   OF   BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBEB 

WHEN 

SUB- 

ABBANOBD 

OENBBAIi 

OF 

EXCHANGES 

PLATES 

BEGUN 

OOIiLEOTIONS 

BY 

DESIBED 

4,051 

1880 

None 

Alphabet 

Yes 

12,053 

1887 

Children 

Artists 

(I 

2,000 

1886 

Styles 

(( 

11,000 

1890 

Provence 

Alphabet 

(( 

6,000 

1892 

Dated 

Styles 

No 

1898 

Yes 

10,000 

1893 

None 

Alphabet 

(( 

5,000 

1898 

Foreign 

Artists 

tt 

3,000 

1900 

None 

(( 

400 

1885 

(( 

Alphabet 

({ 

1,000 

1896 

None 

No  plan 

(( 

9,500 

1878 

Monasteries 

Alphabet 

No 

6,000 

1892 

None 

« 

Yea 



1888 

Proofs 



No 

4,000 

1892 

Early  Amer. 

u 

1892 

Ecclesiastic 

Alphabet 

u 

4,000 

1896 

Sattler 

Nations 

Yes 

2,000 

1899 

None 

Artists 

(t 

100 

1893 

(( 

<( 

3,078 

1894 

Alphabet 

<t 

800 

1901 

Nations 

II 

3,000 

1894 

Ladies 

Artists 

11 

1,000 

1896 

« 

600       1890       None  Alphabet 

183 


No 


CONCEENING   BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


i     Gartner,  Emil  W. 
Gastines,  Vicomte  de 

Gatimel,  Comte  de  Re- 
gis de 

Geering,  Adolf 

George,  F.  H. 

Gerhardt,  Christian 

G61dlin,  G.  Billot  de 
4.  Goulden,  William  E. 
■f  Gonry,  Dr.  Georges 

Greenaway,  W.E. 
•    Greene,  Agatha  R. 

Grissell,  Hartwell  D. 

GrOnvald,  Frederik 

Grolier  Clnb 

Grossh.  Hof  bibliothek 
-/    Grover,  Olive  L. 

Grundy-Newman,  S. 

Guerlin,  M.  L.  R. 

Guittard,  C.  B. 

Hagedorn,  Dr.  A. 

Hahuet,  Comte  de 
'  Hallett,  Jeannette  I. 
Hamilton,  George  L. 
w    Harrwitz,  Max 

■^  Hansen,  Maj.  Erich 
Freiherr  von 


43  Klosterallee,  Hamburg,  Ger. 
Chateau  de  la  Denisi^re,  near  Cou- 

lans,  Fr. 
Chateau    de   Sainte    Marie,   Vala- 

br^gues,  Gard,  Fr. 
Basle,  Swit. 

Box  927,  Johannesburg,  So.  Afr, 
93  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 
Sourdeval,  Manche,  Fr. 
5  St.  Paul's,  Canterbury,  Eng. 
5  rue  des  Tiercelins,  Nancy,  Fr. 
7  Kenton  Road,  Hackney,  Eng. 
NetherHall,BurySt.  Edmunds,  Eng. 
Oxford,  Eng. 
Copenhagen,  Den. 

29  E.  32nd  St.,  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 
Darmstadt,  Hesse,  Ger. 

430  N.  State  St.,  Chicago,  111. 
Littleton  Place,  Walsall,  Eng. 

30  rue  St.  Louis,  Amiens,  Fr. 
80  McMillen  Ave.,  Columbus,  O. 
105  Mittelweg,  Harvestehude,  Ham- 
burg, Ger. 

38  rue  Gambetta,  Nancy,  Fr. 
27  Ellsworth  Ave.,Cambridge,  Mass. 
697  Glenwood  Ave.,  Cincinnati,  O. 
113  Potsdamerstrasse,   Berlin,  W., 

Ger. 
Festung  Kdnigstein,  a.  E.,  Saxony, 

Ger. 

184 


COLLECTIONS   OF   BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBEB 

WHEN 

SUB- 

ABBANQED 

OENEBAIi 

OF 

BXOHANGEB 

PliATES 

BEGUN 

COLIiEOTIONS 

BY 

DESIBED 

4,000 

1899 

Styles 

Yes 

2,000 

1878 

Armorial 

Alphabet 

No 

2,000 

1888 

u 

(( 

Yes 

3,500 

1870 

Swiss 

Dates 

(( 

500 

1896 

None 

Styles 

i( 

2,000 

1890 

Angling 

Alphabet 

No 

1,000 

1901 

Armorial 

Styles 

Yes 

10,000 

1890 

Labels 

Alphabet 

(( 

3,500 

1896 

u 

(t 

500 

1897 

No 

1,000 

1895 

None 

Yes 

1,900 

1890 

Armorial 

Styles 

t( 

200 

1883 

(( 

1885 

None 

Styles 

No 

1896 

u 

(( 

« 

250 

1898 

u 

u 

Yes 

5,000 

1878 

Legal 

(t 

800 

Armorial 

Alphabet 

« 

500 

1898 

Non« 

Dates 

(( 

1897 

u 

(( 

5,000  1892  Old  Fr.  Alphabet 

500  1900        " 

None  

3,500  1882  Old  Conntriea 

1889  None  Styles 


185 


CONOEBNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


Hebard,  Dr.  Grace  R. 
Hewins,  Eben  N. 
Hildebrandt,  A.  M. 
Himly,  Maurice 
Holbrook,  Minnie  C. 


Holtorp,  Hiero  von 
Hopson,  William  F. 

Hubbard,  Elbert 
A-  Huber,  Helene 
4  Hulbe,  George 

Hunt,  Mrs.  Alfred 

c     Ingold,  Dr. 

Iwask-Issako,  Udo 
Jackson,  W.  C. 

James,  David  L. 
_:    Jilson,  C.  F. 

Johnson,  Carnegy 

Justice,  Anne  C. 

-4-   Kingman,  W.  L. 
-*   Klotschkoff,  W.  I. 
■^     Kgl.  Hof-  und  Staats- 
bibliothek 


Laramie,  Wyoming 
4  Hamilton  PL,  Boston,  Mass. 
3  Schillstrasse,  Berlin,  W.,  Ger. 
3  quai  St.  Thomas,  Strasburg,  Ger. 
1054   Walnut    St.,   Newton    High- 
lands, Mass. 

30  rue  Boileau,  Auteuil,  Paris,  Fr, 
730    Whitney    Ave.,    New  Haven, 
Conn. 

East  Aurora,  N.  Y. 
95-IV  Amalienstrasse,  Munich,  Ger. 
47  Lindenstrasse,  Hamburg,  Ger. 
South  Lodge,  Campden  Hill,  Lon- 
don, W.,  Eng. 

6  Place  des  Six-Montagnes-Noires, 

Colmar,  Ger. 
Care  E.  Grether,  Moscow,  Bus. 
2    Vicarage    Gate,    Kensington, 

W.,  Eng. 
127  W.  7th  St.,  Cincinnati,  O. 
3140  Calumet  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 
61  Wynnstay  Gardens,  Kensington, 

W.,  Eng. 
785  Madison  Ave.,  New  York  City, 

N.  Y. 
189  Palisade  Ave.,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 
St.  Petersburg,  Russia. 
Munich,  Ger. 

186 


COLLECTIONS   OF    BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBEB 

WHEN 

SUB- 

ABBANGED 

OENEBAIi 

OF 

EXCHANGES 

PliATES 

BEGUN 

OOIiliEOTIONS 

BY 

DESIBED 

1901 

None 

Yes 

1,200 

1895 

American 

(( 

1,200 

1894 

None 

Alphabet 

(i 

1,020 

1894 

Alsatian 

(( 

u 

100 

1897 

Spenceley 

No 

1868 

Old 

Dates 

(( 

2,000 

1891 

None 

Styles 

Yes 

500 

1898 

(( 

It 

1,100 

1901 

Designers 

<i 

1,000 

1890 

None 

u 

1,400 

1901 

(( 

Styles 

Eng. 

1,500 

Ecclesiastic 

Alphabet 

Yes 

350 

Rnssian 

a 

t( 

3,000 

1866 

None 

No  plan 

« 

350 

2,600 

1896 

Ladies 

Styles 

No 

None 

Alphabet 

Yes 

2,800 

1897 

u 

(( 

3,000 

1901 

Rnssian 

Alphabet 

«< 

2,000 

1880 

Monasteries 

(( 

No 

187 


OONOEBNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


Kyle,  Dr.  James  O. 

Lamson,  Edwin  R. 
Langenscheidt,  Carl 
G.  F. 

-4~  Lannoy,  M.  Delano  de 

-  Lapsley,  Anna  W. 
"■  Lamer,  John  B. 
'   Larsen,  O.  I. 
Leighton,  John 

,_    Leiningen-Wester- 

bnrg,  K.  E.,  Count  zu 
Lemperley,  Paul 
Libbie,  Frederick  J. 
Lichtenstein^Richard  C 
Linnig,  Benjamin 
Loomis,  John  T. 
'   Loth,  Abb6  Julien 

Loveland,  John  W. 
Low,  Adfele  T. 
/  Mackenzie,  Alexander 
W. 
Maignien,  Edmond 
Marshall,  Frank  E. 

Masson,  Henri 


208  W.  45th  St.,  New  York  City, 
N.  Y. 

46  Hereford  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
17  Halleschestrasse,  Berlin,  S.  W., 
46,  Ger. 

104  W.  120th  St.,  New  York  City, 
N.Y. 

12  W.  37th  St.,  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 
1709  19th  St.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
11  Herman  Fossgade,  Bergen,  Nor, 
Ormonde,  Regent's  Park,  London, 

N.  W.,  Eng. 
Villa    Magda,     Neupasing,     near 

Munich,  Ger. 
16  Vestry  St.,  Cleyeland,  0. 
35  Allston  St.,  Dorchester,  Mass. 
.  P.  O.  Box  2068,  Boston,  Mass. 
60  rue  Conscience,  Antwerp,  Bel. 
1726  Corcoran  St.,Washington,D.C. 
St.    Maclou,    rue    Eug^ne-Dutuit, 

Rouen,  Fr. 
Englewood,  N.  J. 

100  E.  17th  St.,  New  York  City,  N.Y. 
463  Town  St.,  E.,  Columbus,  O. 

2  rue  du  Fer-&-Cheval,  Grenoble,Fr, 
3224  Montgomery  Ave.,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 
4  rue  de  Cherche-Midi,  Paris,  Fr. 

188 


COLLECTIONS  OP   BOOK-PLATES 


NXTMBSB 

OF 
PLATES 

WHEN 
BEaUN 

SUB- 
COLLECTIONS 

ABBANOBD 
BY 

OENEBAL 

EXOHANOBS 

DESIBED 

3,000 

1892 

Irish 

Alphabet 

Yes 

110 

12,000 

1893 
1894 

1902 

None 

Original 

drawings 

Armorial 

Artists 
Countries 

No 
Yes 

200 
1,400 
1,000 

1902 
1896 
1901 

None 

Spenoeley 

None 

Solander 

u 

(( 

No 

27,000 

1889 

Ladies 

Localities 

Yes 

10,000 
6,000 
1,600 
1,000 
1,000 

1885 
1870 
1900 
1894 
1860 

Celebrities 
Early  Amer. 

Old  Fr. 
None 
Old  engr. 

Alphabet 

Periods 

Styles 

Alphabet 
Dates 

No 

Engr. 
Yes 
(i 

500 

1900 
1899 

E.  D.  French 

None 

Mackenzie 

No  plan 
Alphabet 

4,000 

1867 

Danphinois 
Early  Amer. 

(t 

1,600 

1877 

Armorial 

189 

Styles 

Yes 

CONOEBNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


J    Matharel,  Mme.  La 
Vicomtesse  de 
Merrill,  Mary  E.  Rath- 
J    Mesching,  Edgttr 

•^'    Milner,  Madeleine  W. 
Montgomery,  Thomas 
Lynch 
4    Moore,  Edward  M. 
Morgan,  John 
Months,  Fr. 
-,    Mttlinen-de  Hallwgl, 
CoTint  ■¥.  W.  de 
Murray,  James 

Museum  of  Fine  Arts 
Nationale  Bibliothfeque 
New  York  Historical 

Society 
New  York  Public  Lib. 

Nichols,  Mary  E. 
Noll,  Rev.  Arthur  H. 
Oberkamp  de  Dabrun, 

Baron  Emile 
Orr,  John 

-f  Paine,  Nathaniel 

.     Pallmann,  Frau  Dr.  E. 


Chateau  de  la  Grangefort  par  Par- 
entignat,  Puy-de-D6me,  Fr. 

80  N.  Winner  Ave.,  Columbus,  O. 

Lit.  52  log.  B.,  St.  Petersburg, 
Rus. 

336  College  Ave.,  DeKalb,  111. 

904  Clinton  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

7028  Parnell  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 
Rabislaw  House,  Aberdeen,  Scot. 
Rtittenscheidt  b-Essen-Ruhr,  Ger. 
Bern,  Swit.  -► 

246  Whitehall  St.,  Dennistoun, 

Glasgow,  Soot. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Paris,  Fr. 
170  Second  Ave.,  New  York  City, 

N.  Y. 
40  Lafayette  Place,  New  York  City, 

N.  Y. 
2405  Auburn  Ave.,  Cincinnati,  O. 
Sewanee,  Tenn. 
Alais,  Fr. 

31  Comely  Bank    Road,   Edin- 
burgh, Soot. 

72  Elm  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

95-IV  Amalienstrasse,  Munich, 
Ger. 

190 


COLLECTIONS  OF   BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBEB 

WHEN 

SUB- 

ABBANQBD 

GENEBAIi 

OF 

EXOHANOES 

PliATES 

BEGUN 

OOIiliEOTIONS 

BY 

DESIBED 

2,000 

1888 

None 

Localities 

Yes 

8,000 

1893 

Symbolic 

Styles 

« 

500 

1902 

Russian 

Dates 

(( 

1900 

(( 

1,000 

1892 

Heraldic 

u 

1900 

Modern 

Alphabet 

(( 

6,000 

1896 

Celebrities 

(( 

No 

3,000 

1896 

Military 

Dates 

Yes 

250 

1860 

Armorial 

Alphabet 

<t 

2,500 

1894 

Masonic 

ti 

(i 

600 

1898 

Owners 

No 

20,000 

1885 

Russian 

Alphabet 

H 

66 

1789 

Maverick 

i( 

100       1897 


900 

1893 

Owners 

Yes 

1,000 

1900 

Alphabet 

i( 

800 

1876 

Armorial 

(( 

(( 

7,000 

1900 

(( 

No 

700 

1897 

None 

Styles 

Yes 

300 

1901 

Ladies 

Design 

u 

191 


OONCEKNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


Parmelee,  Dr.  G.  L.         65  Pratt  St.,  Hartford,  Conn. 
Peachey,  Dr.  George  C.   Brightwalton,  Wantage,  Eng. 
Pelay,  Edonard  74  rue  de  Crosnes,  Rouen,  Fr. 

Perrier,  Emile  122   blvd.  Longchamp,  Marseilles, 

Fr. 

269   Lowell  Ave.,  Newtonville, 
Mass. 

17  Waterloo  Place,  Cork,  Ir. 
Hameln-on-the-Weser,  Hanover, 
Ger. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Kingston,  Ulster  Co.,  N.  Y. 

2128  E.  2nd  St.,  Dulnth,  Minn. 

320  Collins  St.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

43  Belmont  St.,  Sonthport,  Eng. 

35  Lakewood  Road,  Newton  High- 
lands, Mass. 

Villa  Dncale  Litta,  Venice,  It. 

3  rue  du  Faubourg  St.  Georges, 
Nancy,  Fr. 

45  Junkergasse,  Bern,  Swit. 
Alder  Hill,  Meanwood,  Leeds,  Eng. 
419  Broadway,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Williamstown,  Mass. 
73  Grand  rue,  Villa  23,  St.GervalB, 


Pettee,  M.  W.  (Mrs.) 

Peyton,  Violet 
Pfltimer,  Georg 

Philadelphia  Free  Lib. 
Phillips,  Augustus  J. 
Poirier,  Lydia  M. 
Porter,  Josephine  E.  S. 
Potts,  John  L. 
Prescott,  Walter  C. 

Prior,  David  Henry 
Robert,  Edmond  des 

Rodt,  Walther  E.  von 
Rowley,  Walter 
Ruscha,  Ludmilla 
Sabin,  Ruth  M. 
Saffroy,  A. 

Sainte-Geneviftve  Bib- 
liothi^que 


-Vr<VVk 


Fr. 


Paris,  Fr. 


192 


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COLLECTIONS  OP   BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBEB 

WHEN 

SUB- 

ABBANOED 

OENEBAIj 

OF 

EXOHANOEB 

PliATES 

BEGUN 

OOIiliEOXIONS 

BY 

DESIBED 

792 

None 

Alphabet 

Yes 

632 

1896 

Peachey 

Styles 

Med. 
Yes 

10,000 

1880 

Alphabet 

1,000 

i( 

300 

1900 

(( 

1894 

None 

(( 

1899 

Alphabet 

« 

800 

1890 

None 

Localities 

No 

300 

1899 

Library 

Yes 

250 

1895 

None 

No  order 

<( 

1,700 

1894 

Bewick 

Alphabet 

— 

5,000 

1896 

Canadian 

Artists 

No 

10,000 

1880 

Armorial 

Styles 

Yes 

6,000 

1897 

u 

-<( 

1,000 

1896 

None 

No  plan 

i( 

250 

1897 

Armorial 

Styles 

(( 

1901 

None 

No  plan 

(t 

700 

1900 

E.  D.  French 

(( 

10,000 

1880 

Nations 

(( 

French 

Alphabet 

No 

193 


CONCERNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


Sartorio,  Charles  de 

Sohibanoff,  P.  P. 
Schomberg,  Arthnr 
Schroder,  Alfred 

■^    Schtissler,  Marcus 

Scott,  J.  Douglas 
■f   Scripps,  James  E. 

Seliwanoff,  A.  B. 
-4    Sens,  Georges 
-    Shelton,  Ada  S. 

Shepherd,  John  W. 

Sherborn,  Charles  W. 

+  Shir-Cliff,  W.  H. 
Shultz,  Mary  J. 

Sill,  Howard 
^     Singer,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
John  W. 
Smith,  Adelaide  M. 
Smith,  J.  de  Berniere 

Smith,  J.  Henderson 
Smith,  Mary  N. 
Smythe,  Elizabeth  H. 


34   blvd.   du   Jardin     Zoologique, 

Marseilles,  Fr. 
Moscow,  Russia 
Seend,  Melksham,  Wilts,  Eng. 
35-111  Kreuzbergstrasse,  Berlin,  S. 

W.,  Ger. 
Nuremberg,  Ger. 
Neponset  Ave.,Hyde  Park,  Mass. 
598  Trumbull  Ave.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Vladimir,  Russia 
8  rue  de  I'Arsenal,  Arras,  Fr. 
Derby,  Conn. 
Birkenhead,  Eng. 
54:0  King's  Road,  London,   S.  W., 


Eng. 


9lxd. 


e//. 


War  Dept.,  Washington,  D.^OT       ^,  f}J 

5003  McPherson  Ave.,  St.  Lonis, 
Mo. 

2  E.  Lexington  St.,  Baltimore,  Md, 

Knoll  House,  Frome,  Somerset* 
Eng. 

135  George  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

4  Gloucester  Terrace,  Regent's 
Park,  London,  N.  W.,  Eng. 

1  Forres  St.,  Edinburgh,  Scot. 

1233  Spruce  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Ohio  State  University  Lib.,  Colum- 
bus, O. 


194 


CX)LLECTIONS   OF   BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBEB 

WHEN 

SUB- 

ABBANOED 

GENEBAL 

OF 

EXCHANGES 

PLATES 

BEGUN 

OOLLEOTIONS 

BY 

DE8IBED 

3,000 

1897 

Old  Fr. 

Alphabet 

Yes 

500 

1892 

RnsBian 

a 

M 

2,000 

1881 



No 

3,000 

1900 

Berlin 

Alphabet 

Yes 

2,300 

1894 

Artists 

11 

2,000 

1854 

None 

Alphabet 

(( 

1898 

(( 

No  plan 

u 

100 

1901 

(I 

400 

1895 

Provence 

Owners 

— 

150 

1895 

Yes 

900 

1899 

Cheshire 

Alphabet 

(( 

Proofs 

Styles 

No 

10,000 

1895 

Early 

Alphabet 

Yes 

400 

1899 

Styles 

.  i( 

2,000 

1889 

American 

Periods 

No 

13,000 

1893 

Ladies 

Styles 

Yes 

250 

1901 

Spenceley 

No 

1,500 

1900 

Old  Armorial 



u 

3,000 

1893 

Scotch 

Styles 

Scot. 

250 

None 

Engravers 

Yes 

364 

1898 

Libraries 

Styles 

it 

195 


OONOEBNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


-   Soane,  Harry 

Soragna-Melzi,  Mar- 

chesa  di 
Spenceley,  J.  Winfred 
-+    Starke,  Georg 

Stauffer,  David  McN. 

Steyert,  A. 

Stickelberger,  Eman- 
uel 
'    Stiebel,  Heinrich  E. 

•-'    Stokes,  Dr.  John 

-t  Stone,  Wilbur  M. 

I    Strauss-Hanswaldt, 

Frau  Margarethe 
Sturges,  Lucy  H. 
Sutton,  Albert 
Taft,  Dr.  Mary  F. 

-'  Tausin,  Henri 
Teahon,  Maud 
Thorpe,  Alexander 

-'     Tinkler,  Rev.  John 
.    Toedteberg,  Emma 

Troutowski,Woldemar 
Truesdell,  W.  Porter 
'    Van  de  Vin,  Sophie 


36  Hanway  St.,  London,  W.,  Eng. 
40  Via   MaWzoni,  Milan,  It. 

Studio  Bldg.,  Boston,  Mass. 

39  Salomonstrasse,  QOrlitz,  Ger. 

St.   Paul's  Bldg.,  New  York  City, 

N.  Y. 
23  Place  Bellecour,  Lyons,  Pr. 
20  Schanzenstrasse,  Basle,  Swit. 

12    Taunusstrasse,     Frankfort-on- 

Main,  Ger. 
82  Ecclesall  Road,  Sheffield,  Eng. 
411  E.  28th  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
14  gr.  Klosterstrasse,  Magdeburg, 

Ger. 
Elmhurst,  111. 

107  Bishop  St.,  Manchester,  Eng. 
303  Walnut  St.,  Newton ville,  Mass. 
36  blvd.  des  Batignolles,  Paris,  Fr. 
5225  Jefferson  Ave.,  Chicago,  111. 
Westlands,  Wavertree,  Liverpool, 

Eng. 
Caunton  Vicarage,  Newark,  Eng. 
274  Vanderbilt  Ave.,  Brooklyn, 

N.  Y. 
Ereml.  Palais,  Moscow,  Rus. 
36  Hazlewood  St.,  Maiden,  Mass. 
Eeckeren,  near  Antwerp,  Bel. 

196 


COLLECTIONS   OF    BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBEB 

WHEN 

SUB- 

ABBANGED 

GENEBAIi 

OP 

EXCHANGES 

PLATES 

BEGUN 

GOLIiEOTIONS 

BY 

DESIBED 

1,500       1874       None                    Styles 
317       1900       Foreign  


Yes 


1,000 

1895 

Proofs 

Nations 

No 

4,500 

1892 

None 

Leiningen 

Yes 

2,500 

1872 

Styles 

No 

1856 

No  plan 

(( 

1900 

Swiss 

Cantons 

Yes 

6,600 

1877 

Marks 

Countries 

i( 

4,000 

1890 

Medical 

Alphabet 

(( 

1895 

Children 

Artists 

a 

8,000 

1898 

None 

ii 

1901 

i( 

Alphabet 

No 

1,800 

1880 

Cheshire 

— 

1902 

None 

Yes 

1869 

French 

Dates 

t( 

500 

1900 

Early  Amer. 

Artists 

(( 

500 

1902 

None 

Alphabet 

(1 

2,150 

1850 

Ladies 

Styles 

u 

2,000 

1872 

E.  D.  French 

(t 

400 

1901 

Celebrities 

« 

5,000 

1901 

Children 

Artists 

(( 

1,600 

1900 

Foreign 

197 

Periods 

(( 

OONOEKNING   BOOK-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


Van  Zandt,  Margaret 

Vassar  Alumnae  Hist. 
Assn. 
4    Verster,  J.  F. 

Vervliet,  J.  B. 
Vicars,  Sir  Arthur 
4  Vinycomb,  John 
Viol,  Carl 

Wallmenich,  Col.  von 

Ward,  James 
~    Warncke,  Werner^ 
4-  Weittenhiller,  M^Aon 

Welsh,  Gertrude  C. 

Werkmeister,  F.  W. 

Wheeler,  Florence  S. 

White,  Emma  G. 
^    Whitmore,  Mrs.  Wil- 
liam H. 

Wiggishoff,  J.  C. 

Wilokens,  Theodor 

Williams,  William  C. 

Winship,  George  P. 
-     Wolbrandt,  Carl 

Wolseley,  Hon.  Frances 
-4    Woodbury,  John  P. 


Columbia    University,  New  York, 

City,  N.  Y. 
Vassar    College,    Poughkeepsie, 

N.  Y. 
7  Tesselschade  straat,  Amsterdam, 

Neth. 
61  rue  du  Bien-lStre,  Antwerp,  Bel. 
44  Wellington  Road,  Dublin,  Ir. 
3  Riverside,  Holywood,  Down,  Ir. 
14  Plantage  Parkham,  Amsterdam, 

Holl. 
10  Hessstrasse,   Munich,  Ger. 
South  Parade,  Nottingham,  Eng. 
67  Bayerstrasse,  Munich,  Ger. 

11  Hardtgasse,  Vienna,  Aus. 

328  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
2  Leontjewshy,  Moscow,  Rus. 
190  Salem  St.,  Medford,  Mass. 
1030  Davis  St.,  Evanston,  111. 

12  Union  Park,  Boston,  Mass. 

153  rue  Marcadet,  Paris,  Fr. 
Mannheim,   Ger. 
58  E.  43d  St.,  Chicago,  111. 
238  Thayer  St.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
127  West  wall,  Crefeld,  Ger. 
Farm  House,  Glynde,  Sussex,  Eng. 
348  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Boston, 
Mass. 

198 


CX)LLE0TIONS  OF  BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBEB 

WHEN 

SUB- 

ABBANGED 

GENEBAIi 

OF 

EXCHANGES 

PLATES 

BEGUN 

OOLIiEOTIONS 

BY 

DESIBED 

1,000       1900       Ladies 


Alphabet 


No 


325       1899       Institutions        Styles 
11,500       1894       Musical  " 


3,000       1880       Belgian 
20,000       1887       Sherborn 
3,000       1870         


Alphabet 


Tea 


2,000 

1895 

None 

Countries 

<( 

500 

1892 

Nottingham 

Alphabet 

No 

1,000 

1902 

German 

Yes 

3,000 

Engraved 

Alphabet 

u 

450 

1901 

American 

Artists 

a 

500 

1898 

Russian 

Alphabet 

No 

500 

1895 

Artists 

Yes 

1900 

E.D.French 

Alphabet 

No 
Yes 

500 

1895 

Celebrities 

Alphabet 

No 

700 

1895 

Heraldic 

Alphabet 

(( 

1896 

Spenceley 

Yes 

250 

1895 

None 

No 

1,800 

1897 

Nations 

Yes 

5,000 

1890 

Armorial 

Styles 

i( 

3,000 

1890 

Early  Amer. 

Alphabet 

Eng 

199 


CONCERNING   BCX)K-PLATES 


Name 


Address 


Woods,  James  C. 
Woodward,  Fred  C. 
Woolley,  Fred  H.  0. 
Worsfold,  Thomas  J. 

Wright,  W.  H.  K. 
Wurstenberger,  Rudolf 

von 
Wyer,  Mabel  K. 

Znr  Westen,  Walter 
von 


Rheanva.  Swansea,  Eng. 
P.  O.  Box  832,  Washington,  D.  0. 
147  Franklin  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
14  Crofton  Road,  Peokham  Road, 

S.  £.,  London,  Eng. 
Plymouth,  Eng. 
Bern,  Swit. 

Excelsior,  Minn. 

1  Sigismnndstrasse,  Berlin,  W.,  10^ 
Qer. 


200 


COLLECTIONS   OF    BOOK-PLATES 


NUMBEB 

WHEN 

8UB- 

ABBANOED 

OENBBAIi 

OF 

EXCHANGES 

PliATES 

BEGUN 

OOLIiEOTIONS 

BY 

DESIBED 

2,500 

1893 

Ecclesiastic 

Styles 

No 

200 

1899 

None 

No  plan 

Yes 

Styles 

No 

1880 

None 

Alphabet 

(i 

20,000 

1880 

Libraries 

Alphabet 

Tes 

500 

1901 

Swiss 

Cantons 

it 

260 

1901 

Libraries 

Alphabet 

u 

3,000 

1899 

None 

Artists 

M 

201 


INDEX 


Abbey,  Edwin,  A.,  48,  87 
Abbot,  156 
Adam,  105,  156 
Adams,  Frances  A.,  176-7 
Advielle,  Victor,  176-7 
Albany,  Countess  of,  35-6 
Alfieri,  Vittorio,  35-6 
Allardice,  S.,  59-60 
Allegories,  158-4 
Allen,  C.  D.,  16,  98,  107,  171, 
Alton  Road,  129 
Amberger,  Fritz,  168,  176-7 
Amman,  Jost,  60 
Anderson,  Alex.,  60-2,  70 
Anderson,  Mary,  104 
Andorfer,  Karl,  173 
Andr6,  Henry,  87 
Anne,  Queen,  145 
Archbishops'  plate,  155 
Archiv  der  freien  und  Hause- 

stadt,  176-7 
Archives  de  la  Soci6t6  Fran- 

gaise  des  Collectionneurs 

d'Ex-Libris,  173-4 
Armstrong,   J.  T.,  171,  176-7 

203 


Arrangement,  164-6 

Art  of  book-keeping,  xv 

Ashbee,  H.,  162 

Atkinson,  Alice  R.,  125 

Atkinson,  Theodore,  76 

Avril,  Paul,  87 

Aylward,  F.  G.  &A.  E.,  27-9, 

106,  108 
Ayres,  Edward,  136 
Ayres,  H.  B.  &  R.  L.,  136 
Bachrouschine,  A.  P.,  176-7 
Baer,  F.  H.,  176-7 
Bailey,  Sir  W.  H.,  176-7 
Baldung,  Hans,  62 
Ballou,  C.  R.,  130 
Bancroft,  George,  36-7 
Bangor,  Bishop  of,  138 
Bank  Note  Company,  124 
Barbour,  Edith  H.,  100 
Bargalld,  F.,  159,  176-7 
Barker,  Mrs.  Richard,  176-7 
BarlCsius,  Georg,  87 
Barnes,  G.  F.,  126 
Barrett,  W.  P.,  88 
Bartolozzi,  F.,  18,  62-3 


INDEX 


Bastille,  37 
Bates,  A.  T.,  128 
Bates,  Arlo,  176-7 
Baumburg  Monastery,  9 
Beach,  Helen  &  George,  91-2 
Beatty,  G.  W.,  107 
Beauchamp,  Pierre  de,  176-7 
Bednall,  W.  T.,  176-7 
Beilby,  Ralph,  63 
Bell,  A.  M.,  37-8 
Bell,  R.  A.,  50,  88 
Belmont  Public  Lib.,  100 
Benedictines,  2-3 
Benkard,  Rudolph,  176-7 
Berdan,  Joannis  M.,  107 
B^ringuier,  R.,  176-7 
Bertarelli,  A.,  69 
Besant,  Walter,  133 
Bevan,  Paul,  176-7 
Bewick,  John,  64 
Bewick,  Thomas,  63-4:,  157 
Bicknell,  W.  H.  W.,  98 
Bibliothek  des  Kdnigl. 

Kunstgewerbe-Mus.,  176-7 
Billerica  Hist.  Soc,  126 
Biographical,  154 
Bisbee,  M.  D.,  176-7 
Bishop,  156 
Black,  Jennie  P.,  129 
Blackstone  Public  Lib.,  106 
Blackwell,  Henry,  176-7 


Bliss,  Caroline  S.,  176-7 
Bojnici6,  I.,  176-7 
Book-piles,  154 
Book-Plate  Exchange  Club, 

167 
Books  in  chains,  2 
Bosch,  Louis,  160 
Boston  Bewick  Company,  65 
Boston  Browning  Soc,  126 
Boston  Public  Lib.,  125 
Bouchardon,  E.,  67 
Boucher,  Francois,  64 
Bouland,  L.,  173-4 
Bouvenne,  A.,  47-8,  89,  178-9 
Bowdoin  College,  52,  100 
Bowen,  Abel,  64,  69 
Boys,  Henry,  S.,  Ill 
Brainerd,  H.  E.,  96 
Braquemond,  Felix,  90 
Bray,  Thomas,  38-42,  58,  73 
Brayton,  Elizabeth  H.,  129 
Breiner,  Count,  80 
Brendicke,  Hans,  172,  178-9 
Brettauer,  Valerie,  178-9 
British  Museum,  165,  178-9 
Brock,  R.  A.,  178-9 
Brown,  Frank  C,  90,  178-9 
Brown,  James  R.,  178-9 
Browning,  Frances  E.,  178-9 
Brunswick-Ols,  Duke  of,  10 
Bryson  Library,  128 

204 


INDEX 


Buck,  J.  H.,  178-9 
Burchard,  Georg,  178-9 
Burgkmair,  Hans,  65 
Btirkner,  Hugo,  65 
Burnet,  John,  69 
Burnham,  Katharine,  178-9 
Butler,  T.  K.  L.,  178-9 
Butterfield,  W.  A.,  126,  178-9 
Byrd,  William,  42-3 
Calder,  Daisy,  111 
Calder,  James,  112 
Caldicott,  Arthur  H.,  Ill 
Callender,  Joseph,  65-6 
Cambridge  Univ.  Press,  161 
Cameron,  Charles  E.,  126 
Cameron,  D.  Y.,  91 
Cardinal,  155 
Careme,  E.,  174 
Carey,  Edith  F.,  178-9 
Carlander,  Carl  M.,  178-9 
Carlshausen,  Rittenmeister 

von,  178-9 
Carnegie,  Mrs.  T.  M.,  178-9 
Carter,  Melissa  A.,  108 
Castle,  Agnes,  10,  91 
Castle,  Egerton,  10,  54,   59, 

91,  144 
Castle,  Marie  L.  E.,  91 
Castle,  Septimus,  111 
Catholic  Univ.  of  America, 

178-9 


Cattle,  Frederic,  178-9 
Caxton,  William,  161 
Chained  books,  3 
Chamberlain,  Robert  M.,  107 
Chamberlayne,  Emma,  180-1 
Chambers,  Jay,  91 
Chambliss,  George  S.,  128 
Champfleurs,  90 
Champion,  Georges,  74 
Chappell,  C.  W.,  129 
Chaus86,  Alcide,  180-1 
Cheever,  David  W.,  126 
Cheney,  Elizabeth,  100 
Chew,  Beverly,  97 
Chiemsee  Monastery,  9 
Childs,  Cephas  G.,  66 
Chippendale,  9,  146-9,    151, 

153 
Chiswick  Press,  161 
Choiseul-Beaupre,  Bp.  ,71 
Cincinnati  Museum    Associ- 
ation, 180-1 
Clapp,  C.  C,  101 
Clark,  Arthur  W.,  91,  180-1 
Carke,  Maisie  K.,  116 
Classification,  141-63 
Clay,  Henry,  119-20 
Clearwater,  A.  T.,  126,  180-1 
Clerkenwell,  St.  John,  137 
Clulow,  George,  180-1 
Clute,  Beulah  M.,  92,  180-1 

205 


INDEX 


Codman,  Henry  S.,  126 
Codman,  Philip,  126 
Cole,  A.  W.  &  E.  L.  T.,  108 
Collin,  Dominique,  66-7 
Collin,  Yves  D.,  66 
Collections,  175-201 
Collett,  Antonia,  137 
Collett,  Mark  E.,  137 
Columbia  Univ.  Lib.,  77,  96, 

180-1 
Conant,  W.  H.,  99 
Conn.  State  Lib.,  107 
Cooney,  Ellen  J.,  180-1 
Cooper,  Venetia  H.,  Ill 
Corbin,  Frank,  A.,  108 
Cordier,  Paul,  162-3 
Corning,  John  H.,  180-1 
Corput,  B.  E.  Van  den,  180-1 
Cosgrave,  MacDowel,  180-1 
Coudenhove,  Countess  Ern- 
estine, 180-1 
Crauzat,  P.  de,  180-1 
Crabb,  Edward,  135 
Craig,  Gordon,  93 
Cranach,  Lucas,  67 
Crane,  Walter,  93 
Crawshaw,  E.,  135 
Crocker,  Alice  M.,  108 
Crocker,  Minerva  C,  129 
Crooks,  Robert  C,  138 
Curtis,  Anna  L.,  108 


Curtis,  William  K.,  180-1 
Cushing,  Angeline,  180-1 
Cushing,  Josiah  S.,  100 
Dachenhausen,  Baron  von,  94 
Daly,  Augustin,  159 
Damer,  Anne  S.,  43-4 
Darlington,  J.  H.,  180-1 
Dartmouth  College,  52,   77, 

129,  180-1 
Dassel,  Otto  von,  180-1 
Daughters  of  the  Amer.  Rev., 

30-4 
Daulceur,  Mad.  la,  67 
David,  Monsieur,  153 
Davies,  James  R.,  112 
Davis,  Samuel,  90 
Dawkins,  Henry,  68-9 
Dawson,  Arthur  L.,  137 
Day,  Robert,  133,  180-1 
Dearborn,  Nathaniel,  69 
Deats,  Hiram  E.,  98,  180-1 
Decies,  Lord,  138 
Decorative,  9,  154 
Deering,  Thomas,  76 
Delion,  Frederic,  180-1 
Depew,  Chauncey,  131 
Derby  Public  Lib.,  100 
Derby,  William  M.,  jr.,  126 
Detroit  Pnblic  Lib.,  128 
Devlin,  John  E.,  127 
Dillman,  Eduard,  180-1 

206 


INDEX 


Diodati-Eynard,  Madame  La     Ehrhardt,  Georg,  182-3 


Comtesse,  182-3 
Dixson,  Zella  A.,  26-7,129, 

165-6,  182-3 
Dodge,  Pickering,  182-3 
Dodsworth,  Alice  A.,  130 
Doepler,  E.,  94,  174 
Dohn,  Pauline,  116 
Doolittle,  Amos,  69-70, 
Dor,  Pierre,  182-3 
Dorey,  Matthew,  182-3 
Downes,  Mary  L.  8.,  182-3 
Downing,  William,  182-3 
Drake,  Tracy  C,  126 
Drobner,  Gustav,  182-3 
Drogheda,  Countess  of, 
Dnff,  Gordon  A.,  112 
Duff,  Gordon  B.,  112 
Duff,  Thomas,  D.  G.,  Ill 
Duhme,  Ophelia  F.,  182-3 
Dunne,  Frank  L.,  99 
Dunnett,  R.  W.,  136 
Dtlrer,  Albrecht,  18,  70,  118 

160, 
Early  Armorial,  143-5 
Eaton,  Levi  W.,  24-5,  126 
Edlmann,  G.  H.,  136 
Edlmann,  Herbert,  136 
Edward  VII,  King,  20-3 
Edwards,  George,  94 
Ecclesiastic,  165 


Eisen,  Charles,  67,  70-1 
Eisenhart,  August  von,  182-3 
Elwood,  George  M.,  182-3 
Emblematic,  163 
Emery,  Mary  M.,  129 
Emslie,  J.  P.,  182-3 
Eno,  Henry  C,  94,  182-3 
Ensign,  Joseph  R.,  107 
Erler,  Fritz,  94 
Evans,  Arthur  E.,  Ill 
Evans,  George,  182-3 
Eve,  George  W.,  21-2,  95 
Ewers,  Hanns  H.,  182-3 
Ex  Libri8-Club"Basilea,"168 
Ex  Libris  Journal,  170-1 
Ex  Libris  Society,  106, 170-1 
Ex  libris- Verein,  171-2 
Faesch,  Eugen,  169 
Fairman,  Gideon,  71 
Faithorne,  William,  71-2 
Farlow,  John  W.,  99 
Fee,  Mary  H.,  126 
Ferry,  Charles  H.,  107 
Fincham,  Alfred,  138 
Fincham,  A.  W.,  135 
Fincham,  H.  W.,  59,  75,  135, 

136 
Fisher,  William  E.,  95,  182-3 
Fiske,  John,  99 
Fleming,  Sir  William,  73 

207 


INDEX 


Flint,  Mrs.  Alonzo,  182-3 
Forms  of  impressions,  19-20, 

30 
Forwood,  Kate  C.,112 
Foster,  W.  H.,  95 
Frankfort  Stadt-bibliothek, 

182-3 
French,  Edwin  D.,  27,  95,  99 
French,  Frederick  W.,  99 
French,  Samuel,  182-3 
French  Rev.,  18-9,  152-3 
Freund,  Max,  138 
Fry,  Charles,  126 
Furman,  Dorothy,  182-3 
Fust,  Johann,  161 
Gaisberg-SchOckingen,     F., 

von,  182-3 
Garden  of  Eden,  156 
Gardiner,  J.  H.,  130 
Gardiner,  J.  T.,  130 
Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  130 
Gardner  A.  Sage  Lib.,  182-3 
Garfield,  Abram,  127 
Garfield  James  R.,  127 
Garrett,  Edmund  H.,  25,  97-8 
Gartner,  Emil  W.,  184-5 
Gastines,  Vicomte  de,  184-5 
G&timel,  Gomte  de  Regis  de, 

184-5 
Gautier,  Th^ophile,  90 
Gavarni,  72 


Geering,  Adolf,  184-5 
Geoffroy,  Matthaeus,  F.,  77 
George,  F.  H.,  184-5 
Gerard,  Lady,  88 
Gerhardt,  Christian,  184-5 
Gerster,  L.,  59 
Gilbert,  Henry  K.,  129 
Gilpin,  Henry  D.,  66 
Girometti,  Pietro,  122 
Gladstone,  William  E.,  102 
Goethe,  Johann  W.,  72 
GOldlin,  G.  Billot  de,  184-5 
Goncourt,  Edmond  de,  72 
Goncourt,  Jules  de,  72 
Goodhue,   Bertram   G.,  101, 

131 
Gooding,  Alfred,  99 
Gookin,  Frederick  W.,  130, 

131 
Gospel  ship,  58 
Gosse,  William  E.,  1 
Goulden  William  E.,  184-5 
Goury,  Georges,  184-6 
Greenaway,  Kate,  101 
Greenaway,  William  E.,  184-5 
Greene,  Agatha  R.,  184-5 
Greene,  Edith  A.,  101 
Greiner,  Otto,  101 
Grew,  Henry  S.,  127 
Grew,  Randolph  C,  127 
Gribelin,  Simon,  73 


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Grissell,  Hartwell  D.,  184-5 
Gronvald,  Frederik,  184-5 
Grolier  Club,  184-5 
Grossh.Hofbibliothek,  184-5 
Grover,  Olive  L.,  184-5 
Grundy-Newman,  S.,  184-5 
Gucht,  Michael  V.,  73,  83 
Guerlin,  M.  L.  R.,  184-5 
Guittard,  C.  B.,  184-5 
Gutenberg,  161 
Hacket,  Bishop,  72 
Hackley,  M.  F.,  102 
Hadlow,  F.  v.,  102 
Hagedorn,  A.,  184-5 
Hahuet,  Comte  de,  184-5 
Hale,  George  S.,  130 
Hale,  Robert,  76 
Halkett,  G.  R.,  102 
Hall,  Mary  C,  136 
Hall,  Montague,  138 
Hall,  Sophia  E.,  136 
Haller,  Friedrich,  169 
Hallett,  Jeannette  I.,  184-5 
Hamel,  Mary  A.,  Ill 
Hamilton,  George  L.,  184-5 
Hamilton,  Walter,  59,  74, 151 
Hammond,  G.  G.  &  E.  L.,  128 
Hardy,  W.  J.,  54 
Harris,  Norman  W.,  126 
Harrison,  Thomas  E.,  102 
Harrwitz,  Max,  184-5 


Hart,  Gerald  E.,  44-5 
Harvard,  65,  77,  99,  101,  130 
Hastings,  Frank,  128 
Hansen,  Ma j .  Erich  Freiherr 

von,  184-5 
Hay,  Alexander,  138 
Hebard,  Grace  A.,  186-7 
Henry  IV,  149-50 
Henshaw,  William,  75 
Hewins,  E.  N.,  127,  186-7 
Hey  ward,  Maude,  129 
Hibbart,  William,  75 
Higginson,  George,  jr.,  128 
Hildebrandt,  Adolf  M.,  102, 

186-7 
Hill,  Ernest  G.,  Ill 
Hillemacher,  Frederic,  73 
Himly,  Maurice,  186-7 
Hirzel,  H.  R.  C,  103 
Historical  outline,  1-8 
Hoadley,  Charles  J.  &  G.  E., 

108 
Hodgson,  George,  160 
Hogarth,  William,  18,  74-5 
Hoggson,  Noble  F.,  126 
Holbein,  Hans,  75 
Holbrook,   Minnie    C,  127, 

186-7 
Hollyer,  Samuel,  103 
Holmes,  Oliver  W.,  45-6, 123, 

125 


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Holtorp,  Hiero  von,  186-7 
Holyoke,  Edward  A.,  75 
Home,  W.  E.,  106 
Hopson,  Ada  M.,  107 
Hopson,  William  F.,  28-9,104- 

8,  156,  186-7 
Hotel  Touraine,  127 
Hubbard,  Elbert,  186-7 
Huber,  Helene,  186-7 
Hugo,  Victor,  46-8.  90 
Hulbe,  George,  186-7 
Hunnard,  Arthur,  137 
Hunt,  Mrs.  Alfred,  186-7 
Hurd,  Nathaniel,  18,  75-7 
Hutton,  Laurence,  175 
Imaginary,  156 
Ingersoll,  Colin  M.,  108 
Ingold,  Dr.,  186-7 
Ives,  Noble,  128 
Iwask-Issako,  Udo,  186-7 
Jackson,  W.  C,  186-7 
Jacobean,  9,  145-7,  153 
James,  David  L.,  186-7 
Jelf-Sharp,   Constance,     85 

141 
Jilson,  C.  F.,  186-7 
Johnson,  Carnegy,  186-7 
Johnston,  Graham,  109 
Johnston,  J.  Herbert,  108 
Joline,  Adrian  H.,  107 
Joly,  L.,  156 


Judd,  Arthur  C,  99 
Jungwierth,  Franz  X.,  77 
Justice,  Anne  C,  186-7 
Kellogg,  Lois,  128 
Kily,  Leslie  E.,  100 
Kingman,  William  L.,  186-7 
Klingen,  Max,  109 
Klotschkoff,  W.  L,  186-7 
Knabensberg,  Johannes,  17 
Koehler,  Robert,  90 
Kgl.   Hof-und  Staats-biblio- 

thek,  186-7 
Kn6ringen,  14 
Kyle,  James  O.,  188-9 
Kyre  Park  Lib.,  138 
Lamb,  Charles,  128 
Lamson,  Edwin  R.,  99, 18S-9 
Landscape,  156 
Langenscheidt,  C.  G.  F.,  10, 

188-9 
Lannoy,  M.  Delano  de,  188-9 
Lapsley,  Anna  W.,  188-9 
Larner,  John  B.,  188-9 
Larsen,  O.  I.,  188-9 
Lawson,  Thomas  W.,  101 
Le  Clerc,  S^bastien,  77 
Legal,  157 
Leighton,  John,    109,      117, 

188-9 
Leiningen-Westerburg, 

Count  zu,  8,  10,  59,  188-9 

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INDEX 


Le  Keux,  John  H.,  77 
Lemperley,  Paul,  98,  188-9 
Levetus,  Celia,  109 
Lewis,  Eva,  128 
Libbie,    Frederick    J.,     106, 

188-9 
Liberty-cap,  18,  153 
Library  Interiors,  9,  10,  167 
Lidstone,  J.  G.,  137 
Lichtenstein,  R.    C,  188-9 
Linarti,  Filippo,  160 
Linnig,  Benjamin,  188-9 
Lister,  Edgar  G.,  110 
Lister,  Hamel,  110,  111 
Literary,  9,  158 
Little,  Florence  E.,  112 
Livingood,  Charles  J.,  130 
Loggar,  David,  84 
Longman,  Val,  136 
Loomis,  John  T.,  188-9 
Loth,  Abb6  Julien,  188-9 
Louis  XIII,  149-50 
Louis  XIV,  150 
Louis  XV,  151-2 
Louis  XVI,  152-3 
Louis  XVIII,  153 
Loux,  Dubois  H.,  126 
Loveland,  John  W.,  188-9 
Low,  Ad^le  T.,  127,  188-9 
Low,  Ethelbert  I.,  130 
Lowell,  John  A.,  &  Co.,  46 


Lowell  Public  Lib.,  100 
Lyon,  Frederick  D.,  125 
McDowell,  Madeleine  C.,119 
MacDowell,  T.  D.,  136 
Mack,  Alexander,  W.,  107 
Mackenzie,  Alex.  W.,   188-9 
McKinney,  Hugh  G.,  137 
Macomber,  Frank  G.,  99 
Maignien,  E.,  188-9 
Major,  Ernest,  90 
Manila  memorial  plate,  30-4 
Marcus  Ward  &  Co.,  133 
Marks,  Henry  S.,  112 
Marks  of  cadency,  8 
Marshall,  Frank  E.,  188-9 
Marshall,  Julian,  27 
Marshall,  William,  78 
Masson,  Henri,  188-9 
Matharel,  Mme.  La  Vicomt- 

esse  de,  190-1 
Martin,  Alexis,  90 
Matthews,  James  B.,  48,  87 
Maverick,  Peter  R.,  18,  78 
May,  Phil,  113 
Means,  Stewart,  106 
Mecklenbergh,  Ulrick,  Duke 

of,  67 
Medical,  158 

Mellen  Chamberlain  memor- 
ial, 129 
Merrill,  Allene  LeC,  129 

211 


INDEX 


Merrill,  Mary  E.  Rath-  31-3, 

129,  190-1 
Mersick,  C.  S.,  107 
Mesching,  Edgar,  190-1 
Metcalfe,  John  H.,  113 
Meyer,  Eduard  L.,  114 
Micklem,  Nathaniel,  136 
Middlesex  Co.  Hist.  Soc,  108 
Mifflin,  George  H.,  130 
Miller,  130 
Miller,  De  Witt,  99 
Mills,  George  M.,  136 
Milner,  Madeleine  W.,  190-1 
Mitchell,  Henry,  125, 126, 127 
Mitchell,  M.  &  P.,  92 
Mitchell,  W.  T.,  137 
Modern  Armorial,  148-9 
Monk,  William,  114 
Monogram,  159 
Montgomery,  T.  L.,  190-1 
Moore,  Edward  M.,  190-1 
Moore,  F.  E.,  129 
Morgan,  John,  190-1 
Morot,  Aim6e,  89 
Mountaine,  R.,  79 
Mouths,  Fr.,  190-1 
Mtlhlenberg,  H.  M.,  48-9 
Mtilinen-de  Hallwgl,  Count 

F.  W.  de,  190-1 
Mtinchhausen,  Baron,  49 
Murray,  James,  190-1 


Museum  of  Fine  Arts, 

Boston,  190-1 
Musical,  159-60 
Napoleon,  152-3 
Nationale  Bib.,  Paris,  190-1 
Neale,  Alexander,  136    « 
Neumegen,  W.,  135 
New  Haven  Public  Lib.,  105 
New  Haven  Col.  Hist.  Soc, 

107 
New  York  Hist.  Soc,  190-1 
New  York  Public  Lib.,  190-1 
Nichols,  Mary  E.,  190-1 
Nixon,  John  F.,  114 
Noah's  ark,  162 
Nog,  Comtesse,  90,  162 
Noll,  Arthur  H.,  115,  190-1 
Norcross,  Mary,  99 
Northampton  Institute,  138 
Norton,  Rachel,  107 
Oakley,  Horace  S.,  130 
Oberkamp  de  Dabrum,    E., 

190-1 
Oesterreiohische   Ex-Libris- 

Gesellschaft,  172 
Ohio  Memorial  Alcove,  30-4 
Ohio  State  Univ.  Lib.,  130 
Oliver,  F.  W.,  135 
Optical  Soc  of  London,  138 
Orr,  John,  190-1 
Ospovat,  Henry,  115 


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Otto,  Georg,  115 
Oxford  Univ.  Press,  161 
Paine,  Nathaniel,  190-1 
Pallmann,  E.,  190-1 
Palmer,  Lowell  M.,  130 
Parmelee,  George  L.,  192-3 
Paul,  Sir  James  B.,  171 
Paulmy,  Marquis  de,  71 
Payne,  John  H.,  106 
Peabody,  May,  106 
Peachey,  George  C,  192-3 
Peck,  C.  E.  &  A.  B.,  128 
Pedley,  R.  D.,  138 
Pelay,  Edouard,  192-3 
Pepys,  Samuel,  84 
Perrier,  Emile,  192-3 
Personal  plates,  9-13 
Petrarca,  Josef,  80 
Pettee,  M.  Westall,  98, 192-  3 
Peyton,  Violet,  192-3 
Pfaff,  Charles,  128 
Pfaflf,  Hannah  A.,  130 
Pflttmer,  Georg,  192-3 
Phelps,  William  L.,  107 
Phil.  Free  Lib.,  192-3 
Phillips,  A.  J.,  107, 192-3 
Phillips,  William,  jr.,  99 
Picard,  Abel,  49-50 
Picaut,  P.,  77 
Piggott,  John,  74 
Piot,  Eugene,  74 


Pirckheimer,  Bilibald,  160 
Pitman,  Rosie  M.  M.,  115 
Poirier,  Lydia  M.,  192-3 
Pollock,  Walter  H.,  91 
Pons,  Marie  G.  de,  82 
Porter,  Josephine  E.  S.,  106, 

192-3 
Portraits,  160 
Potts,  John  L.,  192-3 
Poulet-Malassis,  59 
Powell,  Douglas,  112 
Powell,  J.  C,  111 
Pratt,  John  S.  A.,  99 
Prescott,  Wa.  C,  23-4,  127, 

128, 192-3 
Prince,  Frederick  H.,  126 
Prindiville,  Mary  L.,  116 
Printers'  marks,  161-2 
Prior,  David  H.,  59,  192-3 
Proofs,  19-20 
Pruyn,  John  V.  L.,  104 
Radford,  A.  J.  V.,  138 
Rassenfosse,  Armand,  116 
Ratajczak,  Paul  N.,  10 
Reade,  Christia  M.,  116 
Rebus,  9,  162-3 
R^gence,  150-1 
Regnault,  J.,  174 
Remarque  proofs,  19-34 
Reproduction  of  plates,  19 
Revere,  Paul,  18,  70,  80-1 

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INDEX 


Bhead,  Louis,  117 
Khodes,  Cecil  J.,  50-1 
Riach,  H.  H.,  74 
Ribbon  and  Wreath,  148 
Ricketts,  E.  B.,  117 
Riyerside  Press,  161-2 
Robert,   Edmond   des,    169, 

192-3 
Roberts,  Mary,  K.,  137 
Rochedouart,  Henri-Anne  de 

Fuligny  Damas,  Comte  de, 

82 
Rococo,  9,  146,  151-2 
Rodt,  Walther  E.  von,  192-3 
Roe,  Charles  W.,  135 
Rogers,  Bruce,  130 
Rollinson,  William,  81 
Roman  Cath.  Church,  155 
Rosenthal,  Ludwig,  17 
Rowley,  Walter,  192-3 
Roy,  Claude,  81 
Ruscha,  Ludmilla,  192-3 
Sabin,  Ruth  M.,  192-3 
Saflfroy,  A.,  192-3 
St.  John's  Ambulance  Soc, 

138 
Sainte-Genevifeve,  Bibliothfe- 

que,  192-3 
Sands,  M.  M.,  125 
Sanford,  Frances,  128 
Sartorio,  Charles  de,  194-5 


Sattig,  Gustave  R.,  106 
Sattler,  Josef,  118 
Schibanoff,  P.  P.,  194-5 
Schomberg,  Arthur,  194-5 
SchOnkopf,  Kathchen,  73 
SchSnstett  family,  17 
Schrdder,  Alfred,  194-5 
Schfissler,  Marcus,  194-5 
Schweizerische    Blatter    fflr 

Ex-Libris  Sammler,  169 
Scotin,  Gerard,  82 
Scott,  J.  Douglas,  194-5 
Scoville,   Robert&  Herbert, 

128 
Scripps,  James  L.,  194-5 
Seals,  163 

Seliwanoff,  A.  B.,  194-5 
Sens,  Georges,  194-5 
Seymour,  George  D.,  105-6 
Seyringer,  167 
Shaw,  Howard  V.,  119 
Shelton,  Ada  S.,   194-5 
Shepherd,  John  W.,  194-5 
Sherborn,  Charles  D.,  121 


Sherborn,   Charles  W., 

120-22,  170,  194-5 
Sherwell,  John  W.,  137 
Sherwin,  Henry  A.,  99 
Shir-Cliff,  W.  H.,  58,  194- 
Shultz,  Mary  J.,  194-5 
Shuttleworth  Club,  137 

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INDEX 


Shnttleworth,  H.  C,  135 
Silcox,  Lucy,  111 
Sill,  Howard,  122,  194-5 
Simpson,  Joseph  W.,  122 
Singer,  Mr.  &  Mrs.  John  W., 

194-5 
Skiff,  Frederick  W.,  108 
Skinner,  J.,  82 
Smith,  A.  M.,  130,  194-6 
Smith,  Andrew,  127 
Smith,  Caroline  M.,  108 
Smith,  Grace  A.,  128 
Smith,  J.  de  Berniere,  194-5 
Smith,  J.  H.,  1G8,  194-5 
Smith,  Mary  N.,  194-5 
Smith,  Ralph  0.,  125 
Smith,  Sidney  L.,  122,  162 
Smythe,  Elizabeth  H.,  194-5 
Soane,  Harry,  112,  123, 196-7 
Soci^t^  Frangaise   des   Col. 

d'Ex-Libris,  173 
Solis,  Virgil,  82 
Soragna-Melzi,  Marchesa  di, 

196-7 
Sparrow,  T.,  83 
Spenceley,  J.  W.,  Ill,  23-7, 46, 

123-131,  196-7 
Stael,  Mad.  de,  51 
Starke,  C.  A.,  172 
Starke,  Georg,  196-7 
Stauffer,  D.  M.,  131,  196-7 


Steinberger,  L.  M.,  83 
Sterling,  Maria  M.,  106 
Stewart,  Redmond  C,  130 
Steyert,  A.,  196-7 
Stick elberger,  Emanuel,  169, 

196-7 
Stiebel,  H.  E.,  196-7 
Stoddard,  E.  G.,  106 
Stokes,  John,   196-7 
Stone,  Eliza  A.,  99 
Stone,  Wilbur  M.,  87,  196-7 
Stowe,  Calvin  E.,  51-2 
Strauss-Hans  waldt,    Marga- 

rethe,  196-7 
Strawberry  Hill  Press,  52-4, 

161 
Striedbeck,  Jean,  66 
Sturges,  Lucy  H.,  196-7 
Sutton,  Albert,  196-7 
Sydenham,  Philip,  73 
Symbolic,  163 
Taft,  Mary  F.,  130,  196-7 
Tausin,  Henri,  196-7 
Taylor,  Matthew  H.,  130 
Teahon,  Maud,  130,  196-7 
Terry,  Ellen,  93 
Thayer,  Ethel  R.,  130 
Thayer,  T.  W.,  130 
Thebaud,  Mathilde  E.,  129 
Thoma,  Hans,  131 
Thomas,  George  C,  130 

215 


INDEX 


Thomson,  H.  C.  M.,  125 
Thornton,  George  M.,  100 
Thorpe,  Alexander,  196-7 
Tilney,  Frederick  C,  132 
Tinkler,  John,  196-7 
Toedteberg,  Emma,  196-7 
Tournament  plate,  7 
Trench,  Isabel  C,  112 
Troutowski,  Woldemar,196-7 
Truesdell,  Winfred  P.,   131, 

196-7 
Tryer,  Cecily,  138 
Turner,  James,  83 
Tute,  C.  E.,  132 
20th  Reg.  Mass.  Vol.  Inf.,  127 
Univ.  Club  of  Boston,  99 
Univ.  Club  of  Chicago,  131 
Univ.  of  Missouri,  129 
Urns,  163 

Uzanne,  Octave,  90 
Vacher,  Louis,  162 
Van  Allen,  Adam,  72 
Vanderpoel,  John  H.,  116 
Van  de  Vin,  Sophie,  196-7 
Van  Zandt,    Margaret,   106, 

127,  198-9 
Vassar  Alumnse  Hist.  Assn., 

198-9 
Vennitzer,  Johannes,  160 
Veronneau,  77 
Verster,  J.  F.,  59,  198-9 


Vertue  George,  83-4 
Vervliet,  J.  B.,  198-9 
Vicars,  Sir  Arthur,  198-9 
Vignettes,  163 
Vinycomb,  John,  132,  198-9 
Voigt,  Paul,  133 
Viol,  Carl,  198-9 
Wait,  William  C,  128 
Wallmenich,  Col.  von,  198-9 
Walmsley,  Mary,  137 
Walmsley,  R.  M.,  137 
Walpole,   Horace,    52-4,    84, 

161 
Ward,  James,  160-1, 198-9 
Wardwell,  J.  Otis,  99 
Warnecke,  Friedrich,  59,  171 
Warncke,  Werner,  198-9 
Warren,  J.  Leicester,  59, 142, 

147 
Washington,  George,  54-7, 81 
Weeks,  John  W.,  131 
Weittenhiller,  M.  E.  von,  198- 

9 
Welch,  A.,  131 
Welch,  Bertha,  A.,  131 
Weld,  Charles  G.,  129 
Welsh,  Gertrude  C,  198-9 
Wenig,  Bernhard,  133 
Werkmeister,  F.  W.,  198-9 
Westminster  Press,  161 
Weston  Public  Lib.,  99 

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Weyer,  William  R.,  134 
W.  H.  Perry  Lib.,  128 
Wheatley,  H.  B.,  54 
Wheelen,  Henry,  jr.,  108 
Wheeler,  Florence  Sylvia,  99, 

198-9 
Wheeler,  Joseph  H.,  98-9 
White,  Emma  G.,  198-9 
White,  Julia,  129 
White,  Robert,  84 
Whiting,  Fred  E.,  131 
Whiting,  William,  129 
Whitman,  Sarah,  128 
Whitmore,  Mrs.  W.  H.,  198-9 
Whitney,  Eli,  108 
Whitney,  M.  F.  G.,  131 
Whittaker,  Gwladys,  139 
Wickham,  Adrienne  A.,  129 
Wiggishoflf,  J.  C,  198-9 
Wilckens,  Theodor,  198-9 
Williams,  Bessie  H.,  128 
"Williams,  C,  jr.,  99 
Williams,  Frederick  W.,  107 
Williams,  John,  134-8 
Williams,  William    C,  127, 

198-9 
Wilson,  Francis,  98 
Wilson,  G.  W.,  135 


Wilson,  Louis  N.,  108 
Winship,  George  P.,  198-9 
Winthrop,  Marie,  131 
Wisteria  Cottage,  26-7 
Wisteria  Cottage  Press,  26, 

168 
Wolbrandt,  Carl,  198-9 
Wolgemuth,  Michel,  70 
Wolseley,  Frances,  198-9 
Woman's  Club  of  Wis.,  129 
Wood,  John  S.,  107 
Woodbury,  John  P.,  198-9 
Woods,  James  C,  200-1 
Woodward,  Fred  C,  200-1 
Woodward,  Joseph  G.,  108 
Woolley,  F.  H.  C,  128,  200-1 
Worsfold,  Thomas  J.,  200-1 
Wright,  Alan,  139 
Wright,  W.  H.  K.,  171,  200-1 
Wurstenberger,  R.  von,  200-1 
Wyer,  Mabel  K.,  200-1 
Wyon,  Alfred  B.,  140 
Wyon,  Allan,  139 
Wyon,  Benjamin,  140 
Wyon,  Joseph  S.,  140 
Yale,  108 

Zeta  Psi  Club,  130 
Zur  Westen,  W.  von,  200-1 


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